What is the background of Jewish settlements in Palestinian Arab
areas? The land of Palestine has always been populated with
religiously diverse people with Muslims maintaining a majority
and having cordial relations with all the minorities. The 20th
century brought a new Jewish ideology, Zionism, which called for
a Zionist homeland in Palestine. With the rise of Zionism, a
large number of Jewish populations started immigrating to
Palestine from all over Europe, increasing the minority of Jews
to 35% of the Palestinian population. In 1947, United Nations
did a historic partition in which it divided Palestine into 55%
of Jews and 45% of Arab population whereas Jewish population
came up to only 6% of the population. In 1948, Israel declared
that it is an ‘independent’ state; however, it did not define
its borders and preferred to remain a nation with undefined
borders. A war followed its declaration of independence from
1947 to 1949 and Israel was created on the 78% of Palestinian
land. This percentage steadily