Why is Israel a nation?

The Ottoman Empire failed during WWI. I'm not sure why that was. After WWI, England took over just about the whole Middle East as a 'protectorate' (read: Colony). This was when oil was just becoming valuable, and England wanted control of all the oil in the area. They redrew the entire map of the Middle East, for instance, giving what is now Saudi Arabia to the current royal family (the 'House of Saud') as their own property, in return for oil agreements. Well, after WWII, there were a lot of Jewish refugees from all over Europe, mostly Germany and Eastern Europe. They had nowhere to go and Britain and America didn't want to take them. So Britain got the idea of creating a nation for them in Palestine. Many Jews had lived in Palestine since ancient times. Israel was created mostly by European Jews. Some Jews (Orthodox and Hassidic Jews) didn't want the nation of Israel to be created because they believed it was only the Messiah who would lead Jews into their own nation. They didn't believe the state of Israel created by England was the one prophesied in the Bible. But also there had been a Zionist movement already for many years, of Jews around the world who wanted to take the ancient land of Israel back from the Arabs.

You are mistaken in one area. Israel may be the "Jewish state" but it is not a religious state, or more specifically, it is a democracy, not a theocracy. As was the case, there was a partition plan to divide the land into two states, a Jewish one and an Arab one, the general idea that that would have hopefully satisfied both sides. However, the Jews accepted the plan but the Arabs did not. When the British withdrew, Israel was declared a state and was attacked by many Arab armies. Their clear intention was to destroy the new Jewish state. They lost that war.

after ww2 israil was given isrial because no one wanted the Jews and because it was they're origianal homeland, ( ithink they were maybe forced out by palistine)if Britian was involed like that it was prolly just to keep order wile a goverment was officialy put in place i get what your saying in the second part, but isrial is not sending terrists out to kill everyone. Isrial is its own nation its not internation land. Austria-Hungery and the Ottoman Empire both cieced to exsist after ww2 and lots of little nations that previously were part of them became there own naions

ok, I suspect you are a relatively young person and can be forgiven a lack of understanding. A whole lot of people tried to keep the Zionists out of 'Israel' after the war, but no one wanted to do anything to help the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who were rotting in camps in Europe, even though they were getting food and clothing and medical care. Picture a Europe today with a bunch of Gaza Strips, only these are full of Jews, not Arabs. There were, however, some very devoted people who helped move enough Jews to 'Israel' to permit them to begin organizing an armed force to protect themselves and to try to seize land to live on. The UN was brand new, and the Americans and British pretty much ruled the roost there. Americans wanted the Jews to have a homeland (lots of Jews in America with political power, even then), and the Brits didn't want to be seen as oppressors in the British Protectorate of Palestine. Europeans were willing to do anythng to get the Jews resettled, NIMBY. Because the Jews were forced to fight for their existance at first, and because Arab leaders were too short sighted to settle matters in 1948 with Jew and Arab living in side by side countries, there was the opportunity for the Arabs to try, several times to wipe out the Jews. The Jews proved to be great soldiers, even the women, and, instead of having to live with the little narrow strip of land they acquired in 1948, they were able to take territory from Arab attackers in the ensuing wars. They also became responsible for more and more refugees as a result of these Arab attacks, and have suffered ever since trying to find a way out. The solution has to be an overarching one that creates two countries, pays reparations to displaced Palestineans, and gets all the Arab countries to recognize Israel as a soverign state. If there were long term peace in the area, everyone would benefit enormously.

During the first century a series of Jewish revolts in Judea lead to the destruction of Herald's temple. massacres of Jews and a scattering of the Jewish population termed a diaspora. During the 19th century Zionism, a political movement was established with a goal of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. Zionism isn't a religious movement. While Jews had always been in Palistine, the Zionists supported immigration, buying land and setting up communities. Turky rule Palestine until WWI when it sided with Germany. After the war, Palestine was taken from Turkey and placed under British mandate. In response to the Zionist movement Britain issued the Belfour Declaration in 1917 stated: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object..." "National home" could be nation or simply a place. Zionists took it to mean the former. Following WWII Britain mandate in Palestine was ending. Most British favored handing the area over to the Arab population. At the same time many of the survivors of the concentration camps and displaced people immigrated to Palestine. England made this illegal but many were smuggled in. The United Nations approved the creation of two states, Arab and Jewish. This was rejected by the Arab League but in May 1948 a provisional government established the state of Israel. The new nation was recognized by the United States and attacked by it's four Arab neighbors. The result of the war was that Israel increased it's border and many Arabs became refugees. The represent the Palestinians and exist in large camps today. End result was the secular state of Israel. Following the war there was a great return of Jews with automatic citizenship being granted. The nation today has internal issues between it's Orthodox Jewish population and those that are secular. However, it isn't a Theocracy such as Iran or the taliban in Afgahistan.