History of the Land of Israel

All over the middle east (Including where Israel is today), empires came and went.  Some of the empires were the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, the Crusaders and the British.  During these empires, there was never an independent state of either Israel or Palestine.  They were territories in these empires.  During all of the upheavals, uprisings, conquests and dispersions, there was always a remnant of Jewish people  remaining in the land.  

On April 11, 1909, 66 Jewish families stood on empty dunes north of Jaffa with nothing but a vision of the future.

To divide the land fairly, they marked seashells with their names and drew lots — a simple ritual that transformed sand into community.

What they founded that day was more than a neighborhood. It was the first modern Hebrew city — Tel Aviv.

From those windswept dunes, a city of music, culture, and innovation rose. Today its skyline touches the clouds, but its roots are still in that moment of courage and unity, when shells in the sand became the foundation of a dream.

The word (or name) PALESTINE is a Latinized form of the word Philistine.  The philistines were from Crete (they were Greek).  Modern day Palestinians are Arabs, they have nothing to with any association with the land

in any way, shape or form outside of 1967  when Yassar Arafat tried to make an association with the land that predated the Israeli presence there.  

After WW2 the need for a permanent legal home for the Jews became more prominent since many countries had refused to accept Jews who wanted to escape Hitlers Germany.  

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/arab-israeli-war

The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948. In 1947, and again on May 14, 1948, the United States had offered de facto recognition of the Israeli Provisional Government, but during the war, the United States maintained an arms embargo against all belligerents.

Following the British announcement that it would end its authority over Palestine, the question of sovereignty was considered by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). The UNSCOP report recommended the division of the British Mandate-controlled area of Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, with Jerusalem to be an “international” city. According to the plan, the two states, roughly equal in size and natural resources, would cooperate on major economic issues, sharing their currency, roads, and government services over the territory.

The Zionist leadership reluctantly accepted the partition plan, as it offered at least two of their requirements — sovereignty and control over immigration. The Palestinian Arabs and the surrounding Arab nations rejected it outright, refusing to accept the establishment of a Jewish state in the region.

In UN Resolution 181, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted to approve the partition plan November 29, 1947 by a vote of 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions.

Palestinians refer to the events surrounding the establishment of the State of Israel as the Nakba, or catastrophe.