They wanted their ancestral homeland back and argued that Jews could only be safe from antisemitism if they formed their own Jewish state.
They wanted their ancestral homeland back and argued that Jews could only be safe from antisemitism if they formed their own Jewish state.
They wanted their ancestral homeland back and argued that Jews could only be safe from antisemitism if they formed their own Jewish state.
They argued that Jews could only be safe from anti-Semitism if they formed their own Jewish state
Answer this question… The British supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine despite an earlier promise to grant Arabs in the colony independence.
Israel was a part of the British Mandate for Palestine, a quasi-colony under British authority.
For the most part, Jewish Zionists were hoping for decades, that their ancestral homeland their old Israel kingdom could be restored to them. Many may have been tempted by the British offer of having their colony in Uganda be that new Jewish homeland but that idea was dismissed by most Zionists Some Jews believed they could have their own homeland communities in the USA. Thousand of Jews immigrated to the US, however, the dream of a restored Jewish homeland in the area they lived in in the past was the best choice. Also, Jews, a small part of their population had already been living in "Palestine" for hundreds of years.
The name is British Mandate of Palestine.
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Israel was formed out the British Mandate for Palestine, which was effectively a colony run by the British Empire. Before that it was part of several Ottoman governates. There was no independent state in the Palestine region since the Crusader States in the 1200s.
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The Republic of Guinea is not a colony; it is an independent country. It is is FORMER French colony, but it has been independent since 1958.