The area that is now Israel is not only one of the most fought over pieces of Earth in modern history, it has been conquered and ruled by different empires for thousands of years, including the Egyptian Empire, the Babylonians, the Persians, Macedonians, Romans, the Byzantine, the Ottoman and the British – and now the home to Israel – which is a direct result of British occupation during World War I. “One is the armies of all the surrounding Arab countries refused to recognize there to be a state of Israel, and they declared war on Israel,” Jentleson said.