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Originally Posted by Pointman

During the first of these, extending from 1880 to 1920, the Jews were small landowners, and the amount of land they owned was not very large compared with that of the Palestine Arab majority. 2/ The main feature of the second period, which began soon after the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and extends from 1921 to 1947, is the establishment of Jewish settlements, the Kibbutzim, with the encouragement of such Jewish institutions as the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association,* the Palestine Land Development Company and the Jewish National Fund. The purpose of these three institutions was to transfer the Jewish populations of Europe to Palestine and provide them with facilities, homes, jobs and especially land in the new host country. It has been estimated that by about June 1947, the Jewish minority in Palestine had taken over 1,850,000 dunams** out of a total of 13 million dunams, mainly as a result of transactions between the above-mentioned Jewish institutions and the big Arab landowners of Palestine

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208638/


Anyone who says anything about "stealing land" should be promptly labeled as clueless. You have no idea what you are talking about. The land was clearly purchased from Arab landowners. The Israel state was created by British Empire, the legal owner of the statehood in the land. As such they were perfectly entitled to create an Israel state the way they saw fit. British were under no obligation to consult Arabian population - who continued to live and own their lands after formation of Israel. In fact, two millions of them still live in Israel today. I wasn't consulted when USSR fell apart either. That's how statehood works.

The way Israel was created is way more clean and legal than, say, Canada. Or Russia for that matter.

Which set of boarders for Israel is the one you recognize? 48? 67? Another one? It would be difficult for someone to answer your question in a way that would satisfy you without you first defining your position on which map of Israel should be used to answer the question.