The Creation of the State of Israel
Rev. Ted L. Dyer, Sr.
The Palestinian Mandate was a piece of the defeated Turkish Empire. The British promised to make the Mandate a homeland for the Jewish people. But in 1922 Winston Churchill gave 80% of Palestine to the Arabs. Jordan would be the Palestinian state if that were all the Arabs wanted. But they don’t. In 1948 the United Nations divided the 20% that was remaining of the Mandate into two parts, one for the Arabs, and the other for the Jews.
Sixty percent of Israel was arid desert. The Jewish settlers went to work. The Jewish people made the desert bloom just as the Bible said it would, “The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.” Isaiah 35:1b. This was done by the funding of the United Nations with billions of U.S. and Israeli dollars for economic development. The Arabs could have done the same thing. Instead their money went into their leaders’ Swiss bank accounts and for funding of ethnic hatred and terrorism.
If the Arabs had been willing to accept an arrangement in which they were being offered 90% of the original Palestinian Mandate there would be no Middle East conflict today. But they weren’t willing then and they are not willing now!
The creation of the State of Israel meant for the first time in over 2000 years the Jewish people had a state of their own that would protect them. But one sixth of one percent of the Middle East for the Jews was too much for the Arabs, so, the conflict goes on.