Palestine existed before Israel.
What do you mean by that? There was no state of Palestine, like Maf pointed out, there was Brit control after WWI and Ottoman rule the prior 400 years. Hell, there wasn't even an idea of a Palestinian people until 200 years ago--they were arabs who lived in the area known as Palestine. The name came to differentiate themselves from other non-Arab peoples in the area.
I completely agree that we must look at the other side, but I've come to my conclusions based on looking at the Palestinian side and I see nothing that indicates they want to live side-by-side with the Israelis. Look at the more recent attempts, such as the Clinton brokered deal that Arafat blew up or that thing in 2008 where the Palestinians never negotiated in good faith.
I'm not arguing whether or not gains were or were not just--that's a different argument-- but that the gains were a result of military action that were precipitated by fatahs and the like.
UN plan "gave" more land to the minority who proceded to build a state by ethnically cleansing the locals.
Yeah, the freaking Negev Desert encompassing the majority of the land. Barney, you do know that Arab populations were the ones attacking the new state of Israel from the get-go, not the other wat around?