Here is the "land ownership prior to the British mandate: jajz-ed.org.il, three districts that are part of Syria, not any "Palestinian nation", national aspiration of Palestinians are quite new, post the loss of the west bank in 1967.
Here is what happens as a result of WWI:http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/100/maps/mandate.html, effort to implement the Balfour declaration of November 1917 (and thus the claim by some extremistsIsraeli that they have already yielded a big chunk of what was "theirs".
Here is what happens as a result of Churchill's interpretation of the Balfour declaration, and some "debt of honor" to the Saudi Arabian Hashemites in 1922: jajz-ed.org.il, the Balfour declaration original "grant" is reduced by 78% to just the west bank of the Jordan.
In 1947, in an grand effort to appease the Arabs, the Jews in Israel accept further reduction, and accept the UN 1947 partition, resulting in 75% of the land for the future Jewish state being, desert. jajz-ed.org.il
Here is what the situation is when the Arab armies invaded Israel in 1948 (these were the worst penetrations):
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Here is what it looked like when the armistice was finally signed in 1949: jajz-ed.org.il
Here are the "cease fire" lines after the 1967 conflict:
jajz-ed.org.il, in 1982, the Sinai was returned and score of Israeli settlements in the ina were dismantled, in full (IMHO) discharge of Israel obligation to return "territories" conquered in the 1967 and mainatined through the 1973 war. I really do not see what is the problem you have with these facts.
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