"I don't really feel particularly surprised that the Palestinians are less than overjoyed at being summarily dispossessed of half their country, and the more fertile, productive, half at that."


Not true- the West bank is the more fertile portion, and that does not include the 77% of the Mandate Palestine territory reserved esclusively for the Moslims as THEIR homeland in 1923.

"a path elected mainly by the British government when they took over a sovereign state, and introduced many thousands of foreigners, without so much as a by-your-leave, and to add insult to injury, put the newcomers in control."

Look at the Jewish population of Palestine under the Ottomans: Does the territory of Israel reflect even that percentage of the Mandate Palestine total territory?