you can ask the same thing about the US in vietnam, and many other conflicts.
they were attacked within the partition plan borders, and as the arab forces retreated, the israelis followed, getting more land, because as the arab armies retreated, the Palestinians, hearing about how the jews were gonig to kill them and such, ran with them. with all the empty land, we took it. to the victors goes the spoils. it was wrong, but we did it, and theres no going back. we certainly cant go back now.
really? tell that to the 15,000 native americans who were forced onto the Trail of Tears. there were a lot of indians. they were certainly the majority when the first settlers got there. it was the exact same situation. small amount of settlers would enter the land, then eventually increase. the reason why the israelis increased so rapidly was because after the holocaust, there was no where to go but israel. the US, and most allied countries had strict immigration laws, and most Holocaust survivors were pinned up in DP camps for a long time.
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