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Did Europe/The West "create" Israel as a result of the Holocaust

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The need to create a Jewish state in Israel was accepted early in the 20th century. Long before Hitler even came to power in Germany. In 1922 The League of Nations gave Great Britain a mandate over "Palestine and Syria" in order to help establish a Jewish Homeland The write: "historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine" and the "grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.". Indeed, If the UK had not delayed, Perhaps many Jews could have been saved during the Holocaust by returning to Israel.

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