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Originally Posted by Aranthus
What do you you mean by "What is Israel originally a part of? ... Politically? ...
With that in mind: ...
Politically: The area was part of the British Empire and before that, the Ottoman Empire.
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Actually, the British administered Palestine pursuant to a mandate from the League of Nations. Whatever authority the UK had was not its imperial authority, but was derived from the Ottomans by way of the League of Nations. The United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations, was exercising Ottoman authority to partition Palestine and create Israel and Trans-Jordan. For the record, the United Kingdom opposed the UN plan to partition Palestine.