It's complicated.bennyfroobs wrote:Israel was carved out of Palestine for Jews with help from the British in the late 1940salso didnt britain oppose the creation of israel for a long time until it was pressued into creating it by USA?
There was already a ZIonist tendency emerging in England as the 19th c. wrapped up (such as with Benjamin DIsraeli) - on top of the fact that the diaspora were already emigrating to Palestine by the thousands.
There reached a tipping point where ruling Palestine as it had been up until then became effectively impossible and radical nationalist Jewish activity stepped up. After WWII closed, the last thing the British wanted was to engage in another hot ground war and conceded for Israel's creation (it is also rumored that the royal family exercised a little sway over the opinion based on their belief that they are literally descended from David and thus "Biblical Royalty".)
With the USA was a slightly different set of affairs: a relatively large, wealthy, and established Jewish societal presence, the emerging oil markets in the region, and the opportunity to make allies in a region pocked with ancient internecine tribal weirdness were all too good to pass up. There are a handful of religious types with ideas about the necessity of the existence of Israel before the Apocalypse can occur according to prophecy, but I don't think they influenced the issue back at the time so much. The British Israelite thing was arguably more influential.
Eventually the American and British economists and military theorists found each other and reinforced the collective trans-Atlantic will to create Israel and it was done.
