They were never an independent nation? What does that mean? I'm taking that to mean that you think their not being officially recognized as a state makes outsi

They were never an independent nation? What does that mean? I'm taking that to mean that you think their not being officially recognized as a state makes outside decisions about what land was and wasn't there's more valid. But I would posit that the idea of statehood that this relies on is based on a Westphalian ideal that is in colonial in this case. The people of Palestine were a nation and they had land of their own. The lack of official recognition by western powers doesn't change that. Did "the world" agree that there was a need for a Jewish state? It seems that many people disagreed both then and now. Why did it have to be built where it was? Because there was a Jewish population there? What changed for the population of Jews to change from less than 5% to almost half within the preceding century?