> It is essentially lost to history that the Balfour Declaration also provided that the Palestinian people should not be displaced. It is equally essentially l

> It is essentially lost to history that the Balfour Declaration also provided that the Palestinian people should not be displaced. It is equally essentially lost on most people today, that the Balfour Declaration did not create the state of Israel, nor did the United Nations create it, nor the UK, nor the US, nor was it post-war "resettlement plan" for displaced Jews by the Allies. To the contrary, Jews at that time were barred from entering the British Mandate. Israelis declared themselves a state, similar to Americans declaring themselves independent of Britain, against the wishes of the UK. So it should also be noted that no "plan" for that region called for a civil war: but a civil war broke out. So it's revisionist shoehorning of the events that played out to say that they didn't match such and such of various plans that may have previously been made but never came to fruition. The cis-Jordan Arabs were not treated worse by the Israelis than they themselves were attempting to treat the Israelis; the Arabs did lose the military conflict, however, after which they displaced their own longstanding Jewish populations.