(January 1, 2014 at 1:07 am)Chuck Wrote: Boohoo, what difference does it make who it were that voted to be generous with someone else's land to solve their own problems at other people's expense while indulge in the appearance of the moral high ground to boot?
The key is the Arabs and Palestinians, who ought to have a veto, didn't.
The land WAS the land of the Ottoman empire. Then it became the land of the League of Nations and then it became land of the United Nations. The partition plan was based on the settlement of people who were there in 1947.
Jews who had migrated into Palestine before WW2 did not steal land, they bought it, for cash, from the Owners.