The British Mandate of Palestine.
The Mandate of Palestine.
The modern State of Israel was founded in the territory of the former British Mandate of Palestine in May 14, 1948.
The former British Mandate of Palestine or Southwestern Levant.
The Palestine mandate was created from the former territory of the former Ottoman Empire following World War I then administered by the United Kingdom. The Palestinian borders were modern-day Israel and Jordan.
Arabs and Jews are in conflict over the territory of the former British Mandate of Palestine in the Middle East.
The 1948 War was the war in which the State of Israel fought the Arab armies to establish itself in the former British Palestine Mandate.
The armies of Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq invaded the former Mandate of Palestine along with regiments from Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
The war took place primarily in the former Mandate of Palestine with some spillover into Egyptian Sinai and Lebanon.
Before the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948, the land was the British Mandate of Palestine. The United Nations had decided to split Palestine into four zones, with two zones going to the Jews and two zones to the Palestinians, providing approximately half of the former Palestine to each. The Palestinian share was gradually reduced, until the UN defined a "Green Line", providing the Palestinians somewhat more than the 1967 borders.
Answer 1British Mandate of Palestine.Answer 2The lack of a singular definition for what constitutes "Palestine" make the question difficult to answer. "Palestine" is typically interpreted one of two ways. The first way is to refer to all of the land in the British Mandate of Palestine which includes the Modern State of Israel (except for the Golan Heights), the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The second way is to refer to exclusively those territories which the Palestinian Authority claims will serve as a basis for a future Palestinian State: the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The former British Mandate of Palestine, therefore, it currently occupied by three nations: the de jure legitimate State of Israel (78% of the former Mandate), the de jure legitimate State of Palestine (20% of the former Mandate) and located in the "West Bank", and the de jure illegitimate Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip (2% of the former Mandate).
Ancient Palestine refers to the region roughly encompassed by the former British Mandate of Palestine during all time-periods prior to 500 C.E. This territory is makes up part of the Southern Levant in the Middle East (Southwest Asia).