Boils down to this simple fact enshrined in Jordanian Law, CarolC:

Anyone could settle and live in what became known as the Transjordan sector of the Palestine Mandate provided they were not Jewish - Jews were and still are specifically excluded.

Anyone could settle and live in the part of the the Palestine Mandate that became known as Palestine in 1923 when the British split the territory.

Every single time a partition proposal was put forward in general the Jewish community accepted it, the Arab community rejected it. Why on earth they did not go for the Peel Proposal in 1937 I have no idea, but they didn't. Each time they opted for force of arms, and each time they lost. Fact of life if you sit down to play poker or any other game where gambling is involved, if you do not have the best hand, or cannot bluff the best hand, you lose. You cannot in all honesty then complain to the dealer that you have lost, you have made a mistake, and please sir can I have my money back. To deliberately chose the path of war - there is no greater gamble than that - nothing on this earth is more uncertain - yet time after time that is what was the Arab causes' preferred course of action was - and time after time they lost.

They fought and then having been defeated, whined and demanded that the offer they rejected should be resurrected and put back on the table - unfortunately things do not work that way. They have steered themselves into situation after situation where they have signed up to UN brokered cease-fires knowing full well that they have absolutely no intention of keeping to the conditions of those agreements and this sad and shoddy fact of life is well known to the Israelis (Latest UN brokered cease-fire Israel has met the UN conditions, Hezbollah and the Lebanese Government and the UN have not honoured one).

The clearly stated intention of both Hamas and Hezbollah is the erradication of Israel. They are supported wholeheartedly in this aim by Iran.

There is no double standard used between Israel & Iran on the nuclear issue. The two are as different as chalk and cheese, one (Iran) is a signatory of the Nuclear NPT and thereby subject to all its terms and conditions, the other (Israel) independently pursued its own nuclear energy programme out of necessity in 1958, ten years before the nuclear NPT was proposed. I said that Israel's nuclear energy programme was driven by necessity as unlike Iraq, Libya and Iran - Israel has no oil or gas to supply its energy needs.