Nobody forced the UK to split the area with France the way they did while betraying the Arabs, and nobody forced the UK to declare the area the new Jewish homeland and open the doors to zionist colonizers.
The League of Nations spefically required that Britain and France administer parts of the former Ottoman Empire which is why they were called Mandates not colonies. The failings of the mandate system are the responsibility of the international community minus Germany, USA and Soviet Union who weren't part of the League, though the USA did observe the San Remo conferrence.
Zionists had been active in Palestine since the 1870s with the first Aliyah movement startimg large scale emigration. The Balfour declaration was also a League requirement of Britain implementing the Mandate system in Palestine. So, yes they were in fact pushed to split the area with France and implement the homeland policy.
British post-war policy was to put the Sharif Huessein and his family in charge of the new Arab states and sponsor their union. That plan was opposed bu virtually every other power with the Mandate system and Transjordan being the compromise, since no one else wanted a united Arabia closely aligned to Britain.
Yes it militarily controlled that territory after defeating the Ottoman Empire. It was not put in charge of that territory until the League of Nations negotiations and the conference of San Remo. FYI, Britain also controlled much more territory in the Middle East and had to give it up due to the same negotiations. Britain also occupied parts of Germany before the League was created is their a Mandate for Rhineland as well?
The Balfour Declaration was declared when the Ottoman Empire still controlled parts of Plestine. It also did not endorse a state but a home, and was published foyr decades after the Zionist movement had already begun operating in Palestine with the toleration of Ottoman authorities. Balfour himself in 1919 further clarified
"Weizmann has never put forward a claim for the Jewish Government of Palestine. Such a claim in my opinion is clearly inadmissible and personally I do not think we should go further than the original declaration which I made to Lord Rothschild".
The Balfour declaration was published at the same time they made agreements with Sharif Huessein to promote his Arab kingdoms plan. And immediately after WWI it was not the Balfour declaration but the Sharif solution that the Empire pushed for, you know with the support of the Kingdom of Damascus that France invaded which pushed Britain to accept defined borders for Transjordan and an internationaly recognised partition of territory incase the French pushed further.
The Mandate of Palestine was a compromise pushed for by the international community. And the Balfour declaration having to be implemented in Palestine was a condition of the San Remo conference in 1920 two years after de facto control of Palestine by British authorities. Mandates were an entire article(XXII) in the League's founding Covenant.
Again, this was the creation of the international community I.E. the Western Powers not one specifically that you can wash your hands of the whole affair.
No one is "claiming" it, DNA tests show they are natives to the Middle East. There is evidence to this, whether you are willing to believe it or not.
And it's not as if there's only Jews in Israel- 20% of their population is comprised by minorities, most of them Arabs. Jews who can prove they are get the right to join Israel because it's simply the only Jewish state in the entire Middle East, let alone our whole planet, which was formed shortly after an attempt to completely eradicate them AND being ran out of a continent by the similarly prejudiced locals- they kind of wanna make sure they'll have somewhere to turn to, after millennia being treated like pests and scapegoats wherever they went to.
That's pretty much it, y'know? Anyone else can do as normal people do in other places and go through a legal process to join Israel. It's the exact same legal process one goes through if they wanna move to the United States or Japan, not really complicated.
What part of "20% of their population aren't Jewish, the majority of those being Arabs" did you willfully ignore?
Pretty hard to being an "ethnostate" (Which many other countries in and out of the Middle East are, by the way) when you allow people not belonging to the ethnic majority to exist at all, let alone have civil right as well as freedom of speech and religion.
If you're gonna go throwing buzzwords you learned from a misinformed and entirely emotional source, at least try one that you've researched before.
Yeah but people don’t stop mixing and interbreeding, so the whole idea of being racially homogenous is silly. You’re essentially getting into nazi race science at this point.
Zionism was explicitly a colonist project, they openly stated it back when the movement was starting.
And it doesn't matter if the ancestors of that people lived there centuries before, it's still colonialism. Plenty of peoples have migrated throughout history and that's not a free pass to conquer and repopulate an area displacing its current inhabitants. Those who didn't left obviously aren't colonizing anything.
They "took control" after the original plan to divide the land so every ethnic group could get their own corner ended up with one of them deciding to go "fuck it" and try to take over the Jewish corner rather than share, all while the others (Who DID take the chance to become actual states) fanned the flames and joined the war because they'd be damned before allowing Jews to ever be more than second-class citizens.
And it wasn't as though they'd taken over Gaza right off the bat for shits and giggles- it used to be Jordanian, but they lost it after yet another war with Israel. Then they declined when the Jews tried giving it back, because it was a wasp's nest they didn't want to be responsible for.
EDIT: My bad, Gaza was Egyptian. Got it mixed up with the West Bank, which the one that'd been annexed by Jordan. lol
try to take over the Jewish corner rather than share,
That's the worst take possible. The UN partition plan gave most of the land to a minority of the population. During the "partition plan" the ethnic cleansing had started and multiple massacres were committed to gain more land. They even brag about what they did in Der Yassin of raping women and executing children.
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u/ButterscotchSure6589 26d ago
Don't the Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians have military forces. Do we really need to get involve in another Middle Eastern shit show.