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Originally Posted by thedevilf
Hey...instead of being in the middle-east...why not re-name any random state in the U.S Israel and move Israel to the north american continent? Saves alot of time, lives, and money.
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Well, there were three reasons that the location was chosen in the 1940s.
1) Israel was not an independent nation at the time, but a territory of the United Kingdom (which the UK was willing to let go), so it was easier to establish the Jewish homeland there (they didn't have to slice up a sovereign nation).
2) Israel is important to the Jewish heritage (and admittedly to the Muslim heritage as well). Since it wasn't a nation at the time, there was no reason not to use it.
3) By the 1940s (prior to the creation of Israel) a large number of Jews had already migrated to this area from Europe, and there was no reason to displace them yet again since the land wasn't a sovereign nation.
-- Jeff