"No part of Mandate Palestine was ever given to Jews to be a Jewish state prior to the partition plan."


CarolC,

No part of Mandate Palestine was supposed to be given to Moslims to be a Moslim state, but Great Britain did so, in 1923. The remainder of Mandate Palestine should have the same rights as given to the 77% where a Moslim Homeland was set up- There should have been a ban on all Moslim settlement within the declared Jewish Homeland ( the 23% WEST of the Jordan).

Since the UN Partition plan was NOT accepted by the Arab nations, and they went to war over it, there is NO reason for Israel to accept that partition as a limit to it's borders.