Bugsy Segal and Meyer Lansky tried Nevada ...
New Mexico had a problem with being renamed to "New Judah".

The Zionist immigration to the region of Palestine (note that I say region -- Palestine was never a country) began in 1882 -- not WWII. What happened after WWII was the world trying to resettle displaced Jewish inmates of Hitler's concentration camps.

Quote:

The Balfour Declaration (it its entirety) Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Yours sincerely, Arthur James Balfour

If you want to blame, or credit, someone with the resulting at hand dilemma -- blame the British Foreign Office! The Balfour Declaration envisioned seperate homelands within a post WWI British mandate of the Palistine region of the Turkish Ottoman Empire's vanquished lands that the British were to be Mandate of.


Religious historical belief ruled the day. Most of the European born refugees and settlers in Israel have no linage that would justify claim to the "Holy Lands". Only some of the Sephardic Jews that immigrated from the Arab lands are direct descents of the biblical Jews -- there is sufficient archaeological and historical (non biblical) evidence of their existence there.

The world needed a place to put the Jews, whether out of guilt or convenience, following WWII and its concentration camps and the Holocaust of the Jewish people. As for the other peoples murdered in Hitler's scheme: the survivors when liberated returned to their respective homelands. No county wanted to accept the Jewish survivors, much as every county refused to accept the Jewish refugees en masse during WWII, so the State of Israel was created along with a Palistinian Homeland (i.e.; country) as a nation.

The rest is history. Two peoples with no compromise solution.

Turning to today

Looking at the past couple of days: the PA's Abbas negotiates a cease fire in Gaza on behalf of his former enemy and new found coalition partner -- Hamas, whose leadership will not come out of their hidden bunkers to negotitate a deal in Cairo with Egypt's Sisi led government. Former General Sisi, now the elected President of Egypt, who would just as soon annihilate Hamas as they are trying to do with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt -- the same Muslim Brotherhood that were friends of Hamas and allowed the illegal importation of weapons, the new longer range Iranian and Syrian made missiles. A case of terrorists helping other terrorists. Now Hamas has only Iran and Syria on its side notwithstanding some misguided protesters around the world.

There may be no cease fire now and these are the reasons why. Making deals in a place like the Middle East usually turns out badly. The people suffer their own fate by the leaders they follow ... Probably until the end of time ...