Approved or disapproved by the world community?
Also the problem is that we already exist as a nation; More like China takes control of all the penguins in Antartica.
Actually, the Ottoman Empire shouldn't have joined in WWI and then you could argue that Israel would still be Palestine (assuming nothing else would have changed after WWI, given the disarray of OE in the early 20th century.)
Problem is, they don't accept the consequences of their actions.