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How Should Palestine Become Israel
The land of Israel has one of the oldest histories in the world. Up until the mid 20th century, what war Palestine had become Israel. The reasons why Palestine shouldn't have been given to the Jews is because the land had belonged to the Arabs for over 1000 years, the Arabs were promised to keep their land, and Israel had taken more land than they were granted. The land of Israel rightfully belongs to the Arabs.

The Arabs are historically entitled to the land because they had lived there for a course of 1000 years. The land never originally belonged to the Hebrews, it belonged to the Canaanites. The Hebrews conquered Canaan and took over its territory. The Arabs or Hebrews never owned the land to begin with. The Romans conquered Israel from the Hebrews. The they destroyed and burned down Jerusalem and forced their laws on the Israelites living there and expelled many of them. During the 7th century, the Arabs conquered the land of Israel from the Byzantine Empire. The Arabs invited the Jews back and allowed them to have religious freedom and live in the land of Israel. This all proves that the land of Israel was not stolen by the Arabs and instead the Israelites that did live there were given fair religious freedoms.
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The British promised Arabs their own independent states if they rebelled against the Ottoman Empire. The Arabs did revolt against them, known a the Great Arab Revolt, and managed to take territory from them. The British knew they wouldn't give Arabs their independence before the Arabs protested. They had also made promises to give Jews their own independant. After the British and French conquered the Ottoman Empire, instead of fulfilling their promises, they partitioned the Middle East into various puppet states for the benefits of the French and British. This gives Arabs a reason why they should be mad at not gaining the land of

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