Question

Which BEST explains why Israel became a nation-state in Palestine after 1948?

A) After the Ottoman empire was dismantled after World War I a new Jewish nation-state was created.

B) The United Nations decided that Jewish people needed a homeland after six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

C) Palestine was divided into two nation-states to be occupied by the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II.

D) Fears that Palestine was becoming a communist state led the United States into creating Israel as a democratic country in the Middle East.

Answer 1

B. The UN decided that Jewish people needed a nation-state to call their home after WWII.

Answer 2

Answer:

B) The United Nations decided that Jewish people needed a homeland after six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.  

Explanation:

The recently established United Nations Organization recommended the implementation of the Palestine partition plan, approved by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 181, of November 29, 1947, proposing the division of the country into two States, one Arab and one Jewish. Thus the state of Israel was created using as justification the need for the Jewish people to possess a homeland after six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

If there is an unmistakable philosophical lesson in the creation of the State of Israel, it is this: the meaning of a historical fact depends on the eye of the beholder. For much of the world the founding of Israel was a heroic feat, an epic feat, the culmination of a millennial dream. For the Palestinian Arabs, however, it was a catastrophe. To this day, they recall the year 1948 as El-Nakba - the doom.