When and why was Israel founded?

Answer 1

Answer 1

Israel was "set up" to give the Jewish people a homeland, a nation after the Holocaust of WW2. If you remember during the war the Jews had nowhere to flee, being persecuted in the countries they had lived for generations. Some could not leave these countries. They could not get out and had no place to go from the persecution. Other European countries would not take them, some did flee to the USA in time. Because of the Holocaust and the horrendous things done to the Jewish people, after the war, through British mandate Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948. Never again will they be a people without a nation with nowhere to flee. It is His will, according to the scriptures, the word of God..

Answer 2

Jews wanted their own country. So they went to Palestine, killed a lot of people, forced out a lot more people, and took the land. They changed the name from Palestine to Israel. Now the Jews have a country but the Palestinians don't. Some people call this theft; some people call it God swill.

Answer 3

Who set up Israel? - Jewish Zionists, non-Jewish Zionists, and collaborators acting in personal, national, or strategic interest.

How was Israel set up? - Israel came into being through a very interesting historical trajectory. Britain created the Mandate of Palestine with the initial intention that it would be a future Jewish state as discussed in the Balfour Declaration. In 1939, Britain issued the White Papers, limiting Jewish Immigration to the land and ostensibly going back on their word. After World War II, when the colonial empires were shrinking, Britain continued to deny the Jews a right to a State. This resulted in Jewish violence in the territory. (There was already Arab violence and independence movements in the territory.) Britain ceded the question to the United Nations whose general assembly approved the binding UN Resolution 181 providing for the Declaration of a Jewish State and an Arab State in the Mandate of Palestine. The Arabs rejected this Resolution and argued that they would not consider it (even though it was International Law). The Jews, at the discretion and right given them by the UN Resolution, declared an independent Jewish State.

Why was the Jewish State set up? - To protect the Jewish people from the non-Jewish world which has consistently historically attacked them, murdered them, forcibly converted them, and made their lives a living hell in some cases. The Holocaust proved that even modern Western countries could be prone to such malicious Anti-Semitic Activities.

Answer 2

There are two questions here:

When was Israel founded?

Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948.

Some individuals claim incorrectly that UNGA Resolution 181 (II), passed on November 29, 1947, "created" a Jewish State (Israel) and an Arab State (Palestine) on the map. This is not the case. What the UN Resolution does provide for is the permission for the different ethno-religious groups in Mandatory Palestine to declare a state. In the case of most mandates, the understanding was that the mandate would eventually become independent as one new state, like Iraq or Syria had. The case of Palestine was therefore unique and needed the permission to deviate from the traditional path of independence. Because of there being two states, provisional borders had to be provided, which is why a map was used, but those borders would only come into play if both sides decided to remain at peace, which, unfortunately, was not the case. There was internecine violence between the Jewish and Arab communities of Mandatory violence from November 30, 1947 on, in what has been termed the Palestinian Civil War of 1947-1948 and is the preliminary part of the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949. After six months of fighting, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion made the executive decision to declare independence because it would allow for Israel to negotiate for foreign weapons purchases, even though it resulted in immediate declarations of war by Israel's Arab neighbors, thus expanding the Jewish-Arab Engagement from internecine strife to a "full-on" international war.

Why was Israel founded?

There are two operative parts to that question. There is the implicit question as to whether a Jewish State is something that should exist. There is the explicit question as to whether the geographical location chosen for this Jewish State is proper for its mission.

1) Why a Jewish State: Herzl explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe. After the Holocaust, the strongest proof that the Jew and the European Nation-State were irreconcilable, this view persists. In Europe, it is now directed at the Muslims since the Jews are not large enough of a threat to the European System. Unlike Muslims, though, which can return to their countries of origin if the discrimination becomes intolerable, the Jews did not have such a place. This is why the Jewish State is necessary. Since it came into existence it has accepted Jewish political refugees from over 50 nations and flown missions at its own expense to rescue Jews from at least 10 nations.

2) Why in the Land of Israel: Ahad Ha'am explains that the Jewish Soul is intrinsically connected to his history and in the same way that a German-American can never be as properly German as a German in Germany, the People of Israel can never be as properly Jewish if they are not in the Land of Israel. The relics in that land speak to a Jewish sensibility and character. There are also religious reasons as expounded by Rav Avraham Kook which posit that the development of a Jewish State in Israel hastens the arrival of the Messiah. There are additional political reasons why Palestine and not Europe. As explained above, the European Culture is strongly anti-Other and making a Jewish State there would have fostered much more contempt and alienation (ironically).

Answer 3

The Jews needed a place of their own so they wouldn't be mass murdered like in the Holocaust