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Paper_Okami posted...

You realize the british government took land that people had been living on for thousands of years to make Israel, right?

You mean the Ottoman Empire lost their land to the British Empire who then gave it to the Jews from an agreement of the league of nations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel#British_Mandate_of_Palestine_(1920%E2%80%931948)

During World War I, most Jews supported the Germans because they were fighting the Russians who were regarded as the Jews' main enemy.[75] In Britain, the government sought Jewish support for the war effort for a variety of reasons including an erroneous antisemitic perception of "Jewish power" over the Ottoman Empire's Young Turks movement,[76] and a desire to secure American Jewish support for US intervention on Britain's behalf.

There was already sympathy for the aims of Zionism in the British government, including the Prime Minister Lloyd George.[77] In late 1917, the British Army drove the Turks out of Southern Syria,[78] and the British foreign minister, Lord Balfour, sent a public letter to Lord Rothschild, a leading member of his party and leader of the Jewish community. The letter subsequently became known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917. It stated that the British Government "view[ed] with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". The declaration provided the British government with a pretext for claiming and governing the country.[79] New Middle Eastern boundaries were decided by an agreement between British and French bureaucrats. The agreement gave Britain control over what parties would begin to call "Palestine".

A Jewish Legion composed largely of Zionist volunteers organized by Jabotinsky and Trumpeldor participated in the British invasion. It also participated in the failed Gallipoli Campaign. A Zionist spy network provided the British with details of Ottoman troops.

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