Explain the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948!

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Explain the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948!

The Jews claimed Palestine as their homeland; there is a story in the old testament of the Bible, which explains how they came to settle there. Palestine became the part of the Roman Empire around 10 to 12bc the Jews did not want to be ruled by the Romans so the Romans removed them from Palestine in the 1st century ad leaving the Palestinian Arabs.

The Christian Europe attacked the Muslim empire of the Turks during the middle ages. During the crusades Christians claimed this empire as their holy land as well as the Arabs and the Jewish people. The Crusades failed because the Muslims stayed in control of the holy land. When the Jews were in Europe they were always thought as been foreign, mean and evil. Jews were blamed for crisis e.g. the plague and were also blamed when the Jews were massacred and also because of the crucifixion of Jesus. Due to these foul deeds some countries expelled their Jews or confined them to separate areas of certain cities away from the rest of the community. The Jews have always lived without a homeland and there aim was to return to their holy land.
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Before World War 1 the Turks had ruled the Arabs for centuries but they now wanted independence. A leader of the Arab nationalist cause had emerged, they had a political plan of what the Arabs wanted which was freedom from the Turks and a nation of their own. In 1897 Theodore Herzl organised the first Zionist congress, in Basel. The main aim of Zionism was to create a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine secured by public law. The Jews haven't had a state for over 2000 years.

In world war1 Britain wanted to try and ...

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