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BUMPED2002 posted...

I always find it odd that the so called Jewish state Israel never existed until 1948 so where was it before 1948.

Prior to WWI it was under the control of the Ottoman Empire. From 1920 to 1948, it was Mandatory Palestine, established by the League of Nations, and placed under the control of the British. In 1947 the UN attempted to partition the land into two states, with Jerusalem under UN control; the Jewish and Arab communities instead went to war. When the Mandate expired in 1948, the surrounding Arab states, Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, and Syria, invaded, sparking the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The result of the war was the Jewish state now occupied 60% of the area proposed for the Arab state. Following the Six-Day War of 1967, the Israelis occupied 100% of the Palestinian territories.