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Those territories weren’t “unoccupied” though. They were occupied and not consulted in the formation of Israel. It really is the root of the issue: https://en.

• joelbluminator 5y ago
  Define unoccupied. It was scarcely populated, definitely then and definitely by today's standards, and the Palestinian national movement was only in it's infancy. Most Palestinian wanted to be part of Syria back then afaik. It wasn't inconceivable that two people can create two states there then, and still isn't now. So no, I don't buy that everything was a colonialist plot. Some Zionists saw it as an expansionist enterprise and some didn't. We know for sure that on 1937 Zionism was seeking a split to the land or at least willing to make it happen. If the Palestinian agreed to the Peel committee in 1937 which offered Israel a very small state we wouldn't have been having this discussion now.
  • luffapi 5y ago
    The estimate is around 700k people, of which a minority was Jewish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)#British_Mandate_era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palesti... Just because it wasn’t a dense urban area, it doesn’t mean it was “unoccupied”.
    • joelbluminator 5y ago
      700k is very thinly populated.
      • luffapi 5y ago
        Stealing sovereignty from one person is too much. Oppressing 700k is a crime against humanity.