Missing something Roni.

It's called a modus operandi.

You wrote:

Certainly some land was stolen from property-holding Arabs, but it would not be accurate to claim that an entire territory without a national government could be "stolen" from a group..."

Israel is continuing to steal land and is doing so through violence and terrorism, a way of being before and especially since 1948.

Please. What the hell are 700,000 plus illegal settlers doing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem?