I didn't miss anything... The Jews weren't permitted to vote for Egyptian independence, now were they? Did they get a say in whether King Abdullah, a Hashemite Arab from Mecca, deserved to receive the entire east bank part of Trans-Jordan.
And they certainly didn't have a say when Abdullah annexed the entire west bank into Jordan in 1948.
So why the heck should the Israelis have worried about getting Arab approval to declare statehood??
Did the US have to obtain French or Spanish approval for us to declare our independence as a nation??
NO.... But did we have to fight and die to force that declaration to be accepted as a Fait Accompli by the Brits, French, and Spanish?
Yes...
Thus, the Iraelis declared statehood, and the Arabs had every choice not to attack, and accept that outcome as the Jews had been forced to accept the West Bank being handed over to the King Abdullah..
But they chose to attack... and attempt to utterly exterminate the Jews from Palestine (despite the fact that they had legitimately purchased the land in the Yishuv from the previous owners)..
And the Arabs got their butts kicked in the process and LOST territory by right of conquest and self-defense.
I don't have a right to your land unless you attack me from it. The minute that occurs, you have lost all right to ownership of it.
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