Zionists
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 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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Zionists.
The development of the concept of the Southwest Levant as the Jewish Homeland was a result of the Conference of San Remo (1920) and the Mandate for Palestine (1922). In the latter document, the British Mandate of Palestine was specifically designed to be the "Jewish National Homeland". When Israel declared independence in 1948, Israeli leaders argued that the creation of the Jewish State was in continuance of this previously determined concept.
Wait a second. Help me out here, and please take it slowly, because sometimes I get confused . . . If Palestine was declared a nation for Jews, and the Jewish nation has been a UN member for 62 years, then exactly what country are Erakat and Abbas and Ashrawhi trying so hard to get admitted to the UN now ?
Israel is the Jewish homeland, but it is not new. It was given to the Israelites well over three thousand years ago by God (Genesis ch.28, Deuteronomy ch.1). See also:Where_did_Jews_live_in_more_than_anywhere_else
Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised to establish a Jewish home (not homeland) in Palestine.
British support in establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.