The British didn't promise a homeland to the Jews. The League of Nations designated the Palestine territories of the Turkish Empire as the land for the Jewish homeland in 1922. This was after the Balfour declaration supporting this, the declaration was written in 1917. The British were given a mandate by the League to administer the territory. Please see the related link for the League of Nations mandate.
Answer 1Israel was created where Palestine used to be.Answer 2In 1917, Lord Balfour described the future British Mandate for Palestine as a possible Jewish National Homeland.
Israel was created for the Jews so they could have a homeland after the Holocaust. Palestine was under mandate by the British who encouraged the creation of the homeland to be carved out of Palestinian land. This area had been occupied by the Jews in ancient times.
Israel is considered the national homeland for the Jewish people and inherited this title from the Mandate for Palestine (which stated in Article 6 that the land was a Jewish National Homeland).
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The Soviet Union was opposed to the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine until after World War II, which is when Israel became independent. The Soviet Union actually saw the British Mandate in Palestine as an attempt by the British to create a sphere of influence in the Middle East and by allowing Jews to settle there, the British would transplant a Western-leaning, and relatively wealthy population in the Middle East. This would be disadvantageous to Soviet interests in the region. As a result, Stalin created Birobidzian Autonomous Jewish Oblast in southeast Siberia to be Jewish homeland in the Soviet Union. Understandably, it was not that successful since it was nowhere near the Jewish population centers.
Arabs and Jews are in conflict over the territory of the former British Mandate of Palestine in the Middle East.
The Jews were promised a homeland primarily through the Balfour Declaration of 1917, issued by the British government, which expressed support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. This promise was later reinforced by the League of Nations' mandate in 1922, which endorsed the Balfour Declaration and granted Britain administrative control over Palestine. The idea of a Jewish homeland also has deep historical and religious roots, traced back to biblical times.
The goal of Zionism is for Jews to live in our ancestral homeland in peace. There is no plan to touch the Dome on the Rock nor to rebuild the Temple in the Zionist mandate.
Some of the Jews who survived the Holocaust moved to British Mandate Palestine after World War 2. The U.N. later voted to give the Jews a homeland in Palestine. mainly just palestine!
Israel is the homeland of the Jews, and Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinians. (However, there are people on both sides who disagree with this statement.)
Many Jews consider Israel to be their homeland.