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First of all comparing the German/Russian situation to well Poland/Germany is ridiculous..

Why? Because the Arabs were promised by the Allies in World War I, if they fought against the Ottomans which they did, that they could have all the Middle East as one nation (including yes, Palestine) and well they were screwed. And the point of the matter is that the Palestinians were the majority at the time.

As for the Palestinians/Arabs fighting the Israelis at the time, of course they did. Most of those people were not natives to the land, the Jewish people who were natives of the land, didn't want a Jewish state because they well feared how their neighbors would react. The Jewish people from the Middle EAst are still discriminated against in Israel by the European Jews..

The point is that if a group of settlers came into the area where your living, with weapons and announced that they were going to build a state on a part of your land, a state based on a religion that is different than the majority's, how would any normal person react. Why they would consider it an invasion and react accordingly. There is no sense of a "diplomatic solution" when you feel that one side is attempting to steal from you.. If the world told Americans that they had to give up part of their land, to Mexico do you think Americans would stand by idly? Would they not fight? That's what happened in Palestinian. And before the whole movement, there were actually more Christians in Palestine than Jews in Palestinian.
The comparision to giving Poland back to the Poles is ridiculous because the majority of the people in Poland where Polish and had lived on that land for centuries, not Russian... They just got rid of the Russian overlords. This is not the case in Palestinian. In fact the whole principle is that they felt betrayed because well the Allies didn't exactly give the Middle East back to the Arabs, like they promised.

So to say that well the Palestinians started it by fighting, what they could easily consider was an invasion is purely ridiculous. It's not like the Palestinians all moved into an area where there was a majority of Jewish people and announced they were building a state.