There were many Jews living in "Palestine" before 1948 on land legally purchased by Jews. Many Arabs were delighted to sell "worthless sand" to the stupid Jews. Of course those "stupid" Jews made the land bloom and produce. They made way for their brethern fleeing from the anti-Semantism of Europe. The Prospect of a homeland was a welcome idea to those who had faced genocide and survived. Israel, a tiny, and I mean TINY country in the vast Middle East. The original state was less than it's current 8019 square miles. That's smaller than Rhode Island. That's smaller than San Bernardino County, CA by more than half. It's smaller than Inyo Co. CA. It is smaller than Kern Co. CA where I was born and raised. And this was THEIR homeland for over a thousand years excepting the Babylonian Captivity. It was the Roman Empire who forcibly and bloodily removed them and changed the name of the place to Palestine, their term for Phonecia. There are no Phonecians, no Palestinians. The hallmark of the Philistine was lack of circumcision, acrobysta in the Greek. Arabs are a circumcised people (peritoma). There are no Palestinians. So here are all these Arabic and Muslim states surrounding tiny Israel and they can't accomodate their brothers? They can't take them in with their HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of square miles? They can't help? They don't want to help. They want the status quo so that it will foment unrest and give them a flimsy pretext to destroy Israel, the Jewish State.