although none would acquiesce to the immigrants coming in, declaring their own State, and driving the original inhabitants out.
They didn't drive the inhabitants out. The UN voted a partition (don't you normally like the UN?), the Jews accepted, the Arabs refused and attacked, promising to wipe out the Jews, and the Jews fought back and won. Before and during the course of the war, for many different reasons, most but not all of the Arabs of Palestine fled from the Jewish controlled areas. After the war, nearly 100% of the Jews of the Arab controlled areas fled to Israel. The Jews became Israelis. The Arabs became permanent refugees, generation unto generation.
If the Jews had lost, there would be no Jews in Palestine today, and I'm sure you would not be crying over them or demanding that the Arabs give them a do-over on the war, as you demand of the Israelis. |
