There's a war going on you know...

In 1947 the land of Palestine was mandated by the UN to become two states. The Arab states of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq rejected this mandate and invaded the new state of Israel by launching a war which they promptly lost.
So did the Israeli's really 'steal' this land ? From the Israeli perpective they fought a war against overwhelming odds to protect a homeland in their ancestrial land as mandated by the UN.

I don't support either side I just realise that you need to be able to see both sides for their to be a solution.

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Well, they sure didn't fight a war against 'overwhelming odds.' That much is pretty much propaganda. And whether or not their neighbours rejected the (ridiculous) UN decision is irrelevant... because the people who suffered were the Palestinians, not the Iraqis, Lebanese, et al. And these regular people were forced from their homes and forced out of what is present-day Israel at gunpoint. Others were just rounded up and executed en masse. This was all part of 'Plan Dalet' (plan D). Israeli historian Benny Morris has written a lot about this.

Although I personally feel that Israel should (literally) be 'wiped from the map,' I can certainly abide a two-state solution, providing the Israelis give the West Bank back to the Palestinians, allow East Jerusalem to be the capital of the new independent Palestinian state, and allows (at the very least) limited right of return for some Palestinian refugees (with massive reparations for those not allowed to return).

This will never happen. Because Israel does not want peace. Israel wants land. That's why Israel continues to build settlements on the West Bank, in violation of the Mideast Peace Plan they supposedly support.