Noone displaced anyone.
The UN resolution from 1948 was based mostly on the principle of majority. Where there were majority of Jews, that land was given to the Jews. Where there weren't, that land stayed out of the the territory of the state of Israel. Arab countries around didn't accept that, and started an all-out attack, where the new Israeli state was victorious at the end.
I don't remember reading anywhere that Americans had any rights in America. But pilgrims started coming from Europe, conquered what was once the land of the "native Americans", and now you have a country named "The United States of America", which, in essence, is formed of immigrants from all over the world.
Same happened in Israel, but for different reasons. Jews were hunted down and killed all over Europe and Africa. Anti-Semitism rasied its ugly head everywhere, during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Where could the Jews turn to ? Israel was a baren wasteland, under Turkish power, then British mandate, so Jewish immigrants started coming, settling down (just like European settlers came to America few hundred years before), bought lands from whoever was here (mostly Turkish lands that the Turks just took for themselves, conquered), and that's how they became a majority in Israel.
So yes, Jews deserve a country.
Today there are more than 7 million people living in Israel, and approx. 80% of them are Jewish. I think that should settle that yes, Jews deserve a country, and yes, it should be Israel.
The UN resolution from 1948 was based mostly on the principle of majority. Where there were majority of Jews, that land was given to the Jews. Where there weren't, that land stayed out of the the territory of the state of Israel. Arab countries around didn't accept that, and started an all-out attack, where the new Israeli state was victorious at the end.
I don't remember reading anywhere that Americans had any rights in America. But pilgrims started coming from Europe, conquered what was once the land of the "native Americans", and now you have a country named "The United States of America", which, in essence, is formed of immigrants from all over the world.
Same happened in Israel, but for different reasons. Jews were hunted down and killed all over Europe and Africa. Anti-Semitism rasied its ugly head everywhere, during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Where could the Jews turn to ? Israel was a baren wasteland, under Turkish power, then British mandate, so Jewish immigrants started coming, settling down (just like European settlers came to America few hundred years before), bought lands from whoever was here (mostly Turkish lands that the Turks just took for themselves, conquered), and that's how they became a majority in Israel.
So yes, Jews deserve a country.
Today there are more than 7 million people living in Israel, and approx. 80% of them are Jewish. I think that should settle that yes, Jews deserve a country, and yes, it should be Israel.