that is a crock of shit to be honest.
first of all, there was no Palestine, there was a Mandatory Palestine. A piece of desert carved out of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, the Land west of the Jordan River became Mandatory Palestine under British rule and the east became Transjordan, a Autonomous British protectorate. Secondly, there was plenty of Jewish Land in 1917 as Jews had been living there for centuries, all the Land however was British. Most of it was uninhabited desert.
No Broheim, you have presented "crock of shit."
"Uninhabited desert" is a full on lie to deny the long standing towns and villages that were annexed and renamed by Israelis in the state of Israel. It is a further perpetuated lie for you to omit the ever continuing colonisation of territory outside the State of Israel with annexation of land into the West Bank.
In neglecting and dismissing the existing presence and title of land by non-mentioned
lesser people (many of whom are refugee survivors who to Gaza from what is now Israel), you're intentionally repeating a long standing PR revision to deny the facts of ethnic cleansing. You have ignored the very real and lasting presence of a strong native population that was not "Jewish" nor British.
As the British were forced out via Zionist terrorism, your falsified tale only leaves Jews as the remaining population. Such a fairy tale narrative intentionally ignores the pre-existence of other Palestinians under various religions denominations, such as Sunni Muslim, Christian, Druze, and Samaritans.
To simply classify the territory as Jewish is blatantly false and supremacist of one ethnicity/religion holding favour over others.
Those other countries, carved out of the former Ottoman Empire were only a few decades old, and hardly formed nor divided by the sovereign rights and self-determination by their native populace.
The State of Israel was ceded land by the British and then re-enforced by the UN. The remaining land of Palestine was to become its own state. Those people in that territory were not Jordanians, Egyptians, etc....... They were native occupants to the land their were upon at the time of the Ottoman collapse.
The facts on the ground are, that the State of Israel has had its borders grow since 1948. Yes, countries have a legal right to defence. The offence is when they continually act out in aggression beyond their sovereign jurisdiction. The 1967 border were its last internationally recognise sovereign jurisdiction.
Modern life could have been quite different without the following actions that created the atmosphere for intifadas and Hamas. Unfortunately, Israel couldn't contain itself, and continually to this day has the strategic and illegal policy under military might to aggressively occupy, expropriate, and annex territory and specific parcels of land that are titled to the native population.
Refugees who had legal title to land in Israel are denied return or compensation. More are still displaced by IDF and colonist/'settlers' expropriation of land in the West Bank. A sad historical irony when compared to Jews of Europe who fought and retained title to their losses.
Israeli action outside of its state borders fail a moral stiff test. It is not hyperbole to correctly and accurately align historical pogroms and contemporary legal language against Israeli extra-jurisdictional crimes. A charged language is apt as the accurate parallels with history are damning indictments of Israeli state action:
· As Germany of the past, Israel has a state policy of lebensraum. Ironically, rather than Germanise lands beyond its border, Israel is applying its military to Zionise extra-territorial lands and displace its undesirable residents. "We are short of land, we are short of air, let us breathe in this country." Distasteful echoes of the past ring true today.
To the OP, here is a perfectly apt surmise of contemporary Israeli antagonism against its fellow native Palestinians.
Suddenly we are short of space here in Israel, which has become full to capacity and needs lebensraum. Every cultured person knows that this is a despicable German concept, banned from use because of the associations it brings up. Still, people are starting to use it, if not outright then with a clear implication: We are short of land, we are short of air, let us breathe in this country.
When we embarked on the Six-Day War did we want to remove a threat or did we want to gain control in order to spread out? That's what happens after 44 years of mire and moral corruption, which distort things and make us forget the original objective and replace it with an entirely different one. We were fortunate when we occupied the West Bank because had we not done so, where would we have come to live? And who knows how high housing prices would have risen? The divine promise is now being revealed in all its ability to prophesy about real estate.
The founding fathers, as opposed to the Diadochi who fought for control after Alexander the Great's death, represented a different approach, for the most part. Between "A little goes a long way," and "Don't bite off more than you can chew," they chose to bite; they even agreed to the 1947 UN partition plan for lack of choice. They believed that all the objectives of rational Ben Gurion-style Zionism could be fulfilled even in "Lesser Israel," which is more complete and more at peace with itself. And it has no need for lebensraum, may God preserve us.
To the inflaming cost of their neighbours, a destructive "Greater Israel" is state policy.
Israel holds the expanding power and cards. Natives will forever hold antagonism and fight back against their occupier and oppressor. In the cessation of expansionist aggression, only Israel, holds the starting solution to a just peace.