Al Jazeera: WATCH: How Israel was created

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Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion, proclaimed the modern state of Israel on May 14, 1948, a day before the scheduled end of British rule, establishing a safe haven for Jews fleeing persecution and seeking a national home on land to which they cite ties dating to antiquity.

But how exactly was that country born on land that was already called Palestine?

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