How did the Republic of Israel come into existence?

Israel was an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC.

It became part of Palestine for a long time.

By the virtue of League of Nations' approval of British Mandate for Palestine, present Israel was re-established after WWI as a homeland for the Jewish people.

In 1947 that the United Nations approved the partition of the Mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.

May 14, 1948, Israel finally declared its independence.

Rest is history (and written in blood).

In the 19th century in Europe there was a political movement in Europe to institute a colony in Palestine where the jews could escape from the historical persecution by the christians.

This movement was called Zionism.

During WW1 Britain was fighting the Turks in the Middle East ( Palestine being part of the Turkish Empire) and was in financial difficulty and needed to raise a large amount of money from the international banks which were controlled by jewish interests.

In order to get this money on favourable terms the British government promised to set up a homeland for the jews in Palestine if they won the war.

This was known as the Balfour Declaration and was conditional on it not affecting the civil or religious rights of the native population who were christians and moslems.

It had no legal standing in international law and the local population was never consulted.

At the same time the British were making promises to the arabs they they would be given full sovereign independence if they supported the British war effort.

After WW1 Britain was given the mandate by the new League of Nations to administer Palestine and there was a strictly controlled quota of jews allowed entry every year.

During the 1920s and 30s the behaviour of these immigrants upset the arabs who rioted on occasion and these riots were brutally suppressed by the British..

After WW2 the jews started to flood into Palestine from Europe in increasing numbers in excess of the quota and the British tried in vain to keep them out.

These immigrants formed terrorist gangs and carried out many atrocities against the British and the Palestinian population. The most notorious of which was the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in which over 90 civilians were killed.

The British were exhausted economically and militarily after WW2 and wanted to get rid of this responsibility so the new United Nations passed a resolution to stop the bloodshed by dividing Palestine between the arabs and the jews.

Again the arabs were not consulted and rejected this plan.

In 1948 one week before the British Mandate was due to end the jews attacked their arab neighbours and siezed as much land as they could. Those arabs who refused to leave were massacred. The ones who left have been in refugee camps ever since.

The State of Israel was declared by the victors and the government included many of the terrorists who carried out atrocities during the British Mandate.

After World War II the surviving Jews of the holocaust has no where to go. There families were gone. There homes were destroyed. They had nothing. So the allies basically gave then the land to form the current country of Israel.

Israel sees everyone who would not help them with money or weapons as Germany 1939. I surprisingly doubt Russia sees Iran as anthing yet a money cow for many of the weapons supplies left over from the soviet era, that could be converted to capacity.