The Palestinians were given the chance to have a state just like we were. They turned their chances down because they want all the land, and do not want to miss having every inch of it because they signed an agreement of peace. It's hard to believe but there it is and here are the facts:
As tensions grew among Arabs and Zionists, Britain submitted the Palestine problem first to Anglo-U.S. discussion for a solution and later to the United Nations, which on November 29, 1947, proposed partition of the country into separate Arab and Jewish states and the internationalization of Jerusalem.
First Aliyah of Jews in 1881 in Palestine
When things got very bad for Jews in eastern Europe in the late 1800s, they created large groups to make aliyah to Israel, and the first was in 1881. Palestine then was under the Ottoman Empire's control. The historic novel, The Settlers, by Meyer Levin, tells about it. They were met by Jews whose families had never left, fooling the Romans who wanted all Jews out of Jerusalem.
Arabs followed Jews into Palestine looking for work in carpentry, building as that's what the Jews were doing and might need labor.
Jerusalem, founded by King David before 970 BCE
Haifa, founded after 1st century BCE for Jewish scholars
Petah Tikvah, founded in 1883
Tel Aviv, founded in 1909
Netanya was founded in 1928 and named for the American-Jewish merchant and philanthropist Nathan Straus (1848–1931). The site was originally established as a noncollective agricultural settlement (moshav) devoted to citrus cultivation.
1890 Demographics below: of Jews 43,000 Christians 57, 000, Arabs 432,000
| 1890 | 43,000 | 57,000 | 432,000 | 532,000 Total |
Since 70 CE, Jews were not allowed entrance to Jerusalem. as threatened by the Romans who had burned down the city and the Temple. That kept our numbers down.
Arab League in 1920s saying NO The partition plan was accepted by Jewish Agency for Palestine and by most Zionist factions; only the fringes expressed dissatisfaction over territorial limits set on the proposed Jewish State. The Arab Higher Committee, the Arab League and other Arab leaders and governments rejected it and indicated an unwillingness to accept any form of territorial division, arguing that it violated the principles of national self-determination in the UN Charter which granted people the right to decide their own destiny.
Arafat b: August 24, 1929 d: November 11, 2004. Yasser Arafat, born in Cairo, turned down the chance for a state of Palestine. Arafat continued negotiations with Netanyahu's successor, Ehud Barak, at the Camp David 2000 Summit in July 2000. Due partly to his own politics (Barak was from the leftist Labor Party, whereas Netanyahu was from the rightist Likud Party) and partly due to insistence for compromise by President Clinton, Barak offered Arafat a Palestinian state in 73 percent of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian percentage of sovereignty would extend to 90 percent over a ten- to twenty-five-year period. Also included in the offer was the return of a small number of refugees and compensation for those not allowed to return. Palestinians would also have "custodianship" over the Temple Mount, sovereignty on all Islamic and Christian holy sites, and three of Jerusalem's four Old City quarters. Arafat rejected Barak's offer and refused to make an immediate counter-offer. He told President Clinton that, "the Arab leader who would surrender Jerusalem is not born yet." He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. Ideologically an Arab nationalist and a socialist, he was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until 2004.
That's the Arab Palestinians, never failing to miss a chance to miss a chance.
Where did they ever develop the idea to have their own statehood in the first place? There were Arabs, mostly Bedouins who rode across Palestine on camels, and a few that owned land there when Mark Twain visited Palestine in an 1867 voyage, but only saw a few Arabs, and they were the nomadic Bedouins.
Arafat with Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton at Camp David Summit, 2000, and Oslo Accords of 1993. The Accord provided for the creation of a Palestinian interim self-government, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). The Palestinian Authority would have responsibility for the administration of the territory under its control. The Accords also called for the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Palestinians hold a diverse range of views on the peace process with Israel, though the goal that unites them is the end of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Some Palestinians accept a two-state solution, with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip forming a distinct Palestinian state, whereas other Palestinians insist on a one-state solution (Palestinian or binational) with equal rights for all citizens whether they are Muslims, Christians or Jews. In this scenario, Palestinian refugees may be allowed to resettle the land they were forced to flee in the 1948 Palestinian exodus. However, widespread anti-Semitic sentiments in Palestinian society and Palestinian militancy have hindered the peace process.
Israel's population is now 9.364 million people.
New Jersey's population is 9.267 million people.
In 2022-- Israel: 73.6% were Jews, as it is the only Jewish country in the world. 21.1% Arab of which 18.1% are Muslims and 5.3% Others.
Resource:
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine
https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-Declaration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_I_Accord
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