It really would help if people arguing on both sides actually did their homework when talking about the background history.

What bruce just wrote in that post involves, no doubt unintentionally, a complete misrepresentation of a number of facts, notably about the peace treaties between Israel and Jordan and Egypt.

As for the Mandate of 1923, while this endorsed "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people", this was subject to the qualification "it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". There was no suggestion that being "a homeland for the Jewish people" implied a Jewish majority or the exclusion of Palestinians from the territory involved.