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The United Kingdom essentially created what we consider to be modern day Israel. It wasn’t a sovereign nation going back thousands of years.
by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
The United Kingdom essentially created what we consider to be modern day Israel. It wasn’t a sovereign nation going back thousands of years.
- efitz 3y agoThe Ottoman Empire controlled the region until about 1922. The British came in at that time and arbitrarily drew a line dividing the region into “Mandatory Palestine” and “Transjordan”. This lasted until 1948 and the creation of the modern state of Israel. For thousands of years people of several religions and cultures (Jewish, Muslim, Roman, Druze, Armenian) lived together in that area; like most such arrangements there weren’t clear lines that differentiated cultural groups. The lines on the map are and were always arbitrary. Same every time and every where the west has tried to draw lines on maps.
- achenet 3y agoyou should read a bit more about the history of that area.