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Originally posted by noodly: ↑

In this video the commentator says the surrounding Arab states were attempting their own land grab when they attacked back in 1948. They had no concern for the Arabs living in Palestine.

also @ 7min mark, how Jews originally acquired the land.

“We have reams of evidence of how the land was acquired through purchase, trade, exchange of value for value. Now you might go back and dispute some of those transactions, you might say this was not a fair price but that’s an important part of the story, the (Jewish) land was acquired either individually or through consortiums”.

I’ll add, from my own research that a lot of the landowners who sold the land to the Jews were absentee Arabs from other States and the ancestors of those who call themselves Palestinians today mostly tenants of that land, they did not own it.
If they owned the land and chose not to sell it, war aside, no one took it from them.

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Seriously, what did you think a think tank for Israel was going to say, in their own self-serving video?

The Ayn Rand Institute??? Lol

You might as well put Ben Shiparo on, as the narrator.

Why don't you guys go through what the Early Zionists had said?

Like what Sharon said ""It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the Expropriation of their lands." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of Tsomet militants, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

or What Ben Gurion had said " “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal;we have taken their country.It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs.There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have "STOLEN their country". Why would they accept that?”

David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121."

October 29, 1936 the 21 member of the Jewish Agency Executive endorsed the proposal of a transfer of displaced Arab farmers to Transjordan. Only two of the four non-Zionist members opted to dissent.
Flapan, Zionism and the Palestinians, citing protocols of the Executive meeting, p. 261
12 July 1937, Ben-Gurion entered in his diary: “The compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own feet during the days of the First and Second Temple”
– a Galilee free from Arab population.
Ben-Gurion went so far to write: “We must prepare ourselves to carry out” the transfer.
27 July 1937, Ben-Gurion wrote in a letter to his 16 year old son Amos: “We have never wanted to dispossess the Arabs [but] because Britain is giving them part of the country which had been promised to us, it is fair that the Arabs in our state be transferred to the Arab portion”
5 October 1937, Ben-Gurion wrote in a letter to his 16 year old son Amos: “We must expel the Arabs and take their places…. And, if we have to use force-not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places- then we have force at our disposal.”

Or what Rabin had said:

Israel Bars Rabin From Relating ‘48 Eviction of Arabs
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/23/archives/israel-bars-rabin-from-relating-48-eviction-of-arabs-sympathy-for.html

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population? ‘Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said ‘ Drive them out! ‘ “
Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

These are the Zionists who fought the 1948 war. And its their words.