What did Israel colonize?

Answer 1

When Palestine was created is was already colonized.

In the year 73 BCE, the Romans conquered the Jewish land, Judea.

The Romans renamed Judea, Palestine. So when Palestine was created there was already millions of Jews living there.

Answer 2

Never.

The territory which currently makes up Israel was never colonized, at least not under that terminology. From the 600s BCE until 1918 (with a short interlude during the Hasmonean Dynasty and the Crusader States which each survived for less than a century) it was under the control of a vast number of Empires which all controlled the region and maintained it as a backwater. When the Ottoman Empire, the last in this long line, lost World War I, they conceded what would become the British Mandate of Palestine to the British.

The British formally took control in 1921. The purpose of the Mandate system was ostensibly not to colonize, but to prepare the indigenous population for the moment when they would be asked to be self-governing. The British withdrew control in 1947 and 1948 to let the precursors of the Jewish State and the precursors of a (never-declared) Arab State fight out the future of the territory.

Answer 3

The territory which currently makes up Israel was never colonized, at least not under that terminology. From the 600s BCE until 1918 (with a short interlude during the Hasmonean Dynasty and the Crusader States which each survived for less than a century) it was under the control of a vast number of Empires which all controlled the region and maintained it as a backwater. When the Ottoman Empire, the last in this long line, lost World War I, they conceded what would become the British Mandate of Palestine to the British.

The British formally took control in 1921. The purpose of the Mandate system was ostensibly not to colonize, but to prepare the indigenous population for the moment when they would be asked to be self-governing. The British withdrew control in 1947 and 1948 to let the precursors of the Jewish State and the precursors of a (never-declared) Arab State fight out the future of the territory.

Answer 4

Israel has never had and does not now have any colonies.