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You do realize that they purchased land from the Ottoman Empire which was uninhabited and were legally given additional land be the League of Nations and afterwards took over many of those cities you listed above after the War of 1948.
Do some more Google. You need it.
Mind showing me a link to the retarded history story your telling?
1095 – 1099
Pope Urban Calls for 1st Crusade
The Crusaders captured Palestine just after the turn of the first millennium. The Crusades were a series of religious wars between the 11th and the 15th centuries fought by the Roman Church. Many were expeditions by Christians attempting to capture the Holy Lands from the Muslims:
1187
Saladin’s Campaign
The First Crusade was followed by the Second to the Ninth. They were not always what the Church desired. Crusaders often pillaged and they often retained control of lands they captured rather than returning it to the Byzantines. The Fourth Crusade (1202-4) was requested by Pope Innocent 3rd to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims via Egypt. It ended in the sacking of Constantinople (now called Istanbul) and the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire.
The population of Palestine was mostly Christian until 1187 when Saladin, a Sunni Muslim of Kurdish origin, led a military campaign against the Crusaders. He became Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and his conquests included Egypt, Syria, Upper Mesopotamia (north Iraq, northeastern Syria and southwestern Turkey), Hejaz, Yemen and into North Africa. Saladin took Palestine (and Jerusalem) from the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin in 1187.
Pope Urban 2nd called the first Crusade in 1095. It started as a pilgrimage and ended as a military expedition. Urban was hoping to unite the Christian Church that had fractured into the East-West Schism.
1250 – 1517
The Mamluk Sultanate
The Mamluk Sultanate continued the Islamic control of Palestine until they were overthrown by the Ottomans in 1516.
The Mamluk Sultanate (1250 – 1517) was created following France’s attempt to conquer Egypt in the Seventh Crusade. At its zenith, it spanned Egypt, the Levant and Hejaz. It overthrew the Ayyubid Dynasty and lasted until 1517 when the Ottomans conquered Egypt.
The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, was founded 1299 by Osman 1st of the Oghuz Turks in Anatolia. The Ottomans conquered Constantinople and ended the Byzantine Empire in 1453. They went on to control much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. There was a majority of Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, but non-Muslim communities were protected under the law. They were defeated after six centuries at the end of the First World War.
In 1600 the population of Palestine consisted (approximately) of 219,000 Muslims, 11,000 Christians, and 2,000 Jews.
1882 – 1903
Jewish Migration
From 1882 to 1903 25,000-35,000 Jews migrated to Ottoman Syria (which included Palestine).
By the end of the 19th century Zionism had arisen and the Zionist migration started. Zionism was defined as the creation of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The aim seemed reasonable but for the fact that Palestine was already inhabited. That fact was carefully ignored, though not by all Jewish leaders – Ahad Ha’am, when visiting, observed that it was hard to find land that was not cultivated. There was an indigenous people, predominantly Muslim, living in that area who had to be displaced if Israel was to be created. Their rights were not considered.
1915
Britain’s Promise of Independence
In the years leading up to the First World War there was growing Arab hostility against the Ottomans. One of the leaders was Sherif Hussein, Emir of Mecca, and he was negotiating with the British. Hussein wanted a British guarantee of an independent Arab state including the Hejaz, Syria and Mesopotamia in return for rising against the Ottomans. The Ottoman sultan had called to all Muslims for a jihad against the British Empire, especially in India. Britain was worried about this and saw Hussein as a buffer.
1917
The Balfour Declaration
In 1917, the British Secretary of State, Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Rothschild (a member of the British Jewish community) promising British support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. Britain considered that the Jewish need was of greater importance than the rights of the Palestinians already living there.
1917 – 1918
Britain Secures Jerusalem & Defeats Ottomans
The British secured Jerusalem by 1917 and completed the victory over the Ottomans in 1918.
Unfortunately, Britain had made three different promises to three different parties – the Arabs, the French and the Zionists. The aims of these three were at odds as the Arabs wanted an independent state, the French wanted colonies, and the Zionists wanted to establish Israel. So Britain and France excluded the Arabs and signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement that divided up the area between them. Britain would control Palestine, Jordan, south Iraq, Haifa and Acre; France would control Turkey, north Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
1920
The League of Nations Palestine Population report
In 1920 a League of Nations report suggested that the population of Palestine was about 700,000 of whom 80% were Muslims. .
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