THE PALESTINE QUESTION NOBODY IS ASKING:
Under the UN Partition plan of 1947, Israel was given 62% of the area of undivided Palestine (25k km², half desert).
So the Arabs got 38% of the area?
That's roughly 9.5k km²?
So why is today's Palestine only 6k km²?
Here's why:
They could have easily accepted the Palestinian state in the rest of the 1947 territory, but no, 23 Arab countries didn't want ONE Jewish state in their midst.
So on 15 May 1948, barely a day after the new sovereign State of Israel is formed, they all gang up on Israel
Israel had one secret weapon the Arabs didn't. They had "nowhere else to go".
Persecuted everywhere for 2000 years, they weren't going to let go of their new homeland, however moth-eaten, that easily.
The Arabs promptly got whipped badly and begged for truce
Israel not only retained, but also overran some of what was intended for Palestine. The Mandate area that was 62-38 Israel went up to 79-21 Israel. Rightly or wrongly, Israel acted in Self defence and added territory, (probably to save up for future losses or as negotiation chip)
Funnily, none of the annexed territory was demanded back in the 1949 truce separately with Egypt, Lebanon, Syria or Jordan.
Remember, none of THEIR existing territory was taken so the Arabs were cool with just cessation.
So why did they attack Israel when it wasnt THEIR land?
They hoped to nix the Jewish state, didn't happen.
What DID happen was Egypt occupied Gaza (365 km²) and Jordan took the 5.6 km² West Bank (the two discontinuous parts of Palestine

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What were Egypt and Jordan doing occupying territory, not forming a sovereign Palestine?
So as of 1949, there's Israel, Egypt and Jordan holding between them all of what was Mandatory Palestine.
Where's the state of Palestine here?
Not Israel's fault there isn't one in areas they didn't originally control as per the 1947 partition

Egypt, not content with annexing Palestinian Gaza, wants to drive Israel into the sea. They close the Suez Canal to Israeli commercial shipping in 1956 after Israel commences oceangoing operations in the port of Eilat.
Again, Israel promptly gets that problem solved militarily.
Not content with two bloody noses, Egypt once AGAIN needles Israel at Suez in 1967, in spite of Israel warning them that disturbance to commercial interests was sufficient causus belli.
Egypt is undeterred, fortifies their defences reminded of 1956, and STILL gets whipped
They lose their entire air force in a matter of hours! Not content with going down alone, they goad Syria and Jordan into this misadventure, and their air forces are wiped out too

Talk about stupidity.
Again, we are talking Egypt/Syria/Jordan v Israel.
Where's Palestine?
Israel by now has had absolutely Enough. They overrun and occupy
1. Gaza from Egypt (One part of Palestine)
2. West Bank from Jordan (the other Part of Palestine)
3. Sinai Peninsula from Egypt
4. Golan Heights (western ⅔) from Syria
Sinai Peninsula is returned in 15 years, in return for Egypt recognising the State of Israel.
Golan Heights are retained to this day. The half-desert Israel could do with that water source
West Bank and Gaza are of course the Palestinian territories they still control
Not content with 3 defeats, the Arabs STILL go for it.
Number 4 commenced on Oct 6, 1973 (50th anniv chosen by Hamas for the latest barbarity)
The Arabs wanted territories lost in 1967 back. For once they had initial successes due to the shock value of attack on Jewish holiday.
Of course Israel recovered enough to beat them back, but recognised that they weren't always going to win wars. That's when ISRAEL first spoke in the 80s, of a road map for a Palestinian state, in return for Arab recognition of the Israeli state.
It was Israel wanting a Palestine state, to end this all, NOT the Arabs, they never spoke of it until then
All they wanted was annihilation of Israel, Palestine state be damned
In 2005 Israel vacated Gaza, retaining airspace and border control. Civilian administration was left to Palestinians.
That descended into Fatah and Hamas fighting for control of Gaza.
Why didn't they unite over governing Palestine? Because Hamas is Iran backed and Fatah is Arab
Is that Israel's fault? That nobody wants a peaceful Palestine even when Israel vacates Gaza?
Israel only took what is now Palestine from other Arab states that attacked them.
They didn't unilaterally occupy beyond alloted land in 1948

Why does Egypt close it's borders every time Gaza flares up? They've done it even today, arguing that to them security is foremost!
Where is their solidarity when it comes to actually helping Palestinian refugees? Even THEY don't care about the Palestinian homeless
Lot of similarities in our case with the inbreds across the Radcliffe Line.