Let me ask one of the forbidden questions...

[MikeWaters]

Was it right for western powers to create a Jewish state, where no Jewish state existed?

An analogy might be something like this: the United States feels bad for Cubans and creates a Cuban country in Florida, or Puerto Rico. Some Floridians and Puerto Ricans might be perturbed.

Based on my reading, what you have is wave after wave of immigration, Jews to Palestine, but the Jews are still in the minority. Then Britain creates a new state, war erupts, people flee their homes, and afterwards homes and property are confiscated. Am I reading this wrong?

In 1947, the British government withdrew from commitment to the Mandate of Palestine, stating it was unable to arrive at a solution acceptable to both Arabs and Jews.[49] The newly-created United Nations approved the UN Partition Plan (United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181) on November 29, 1947, dividing the country into two states, one Arab and one Jewish. Jerusalem was to be designated an international city – a corpus separatum – administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.[50] The Jewish community accepted the plan,[51] but the Arab League and Arab Higher Committee rejected it.[52]

Regardless, the State of Israel was proclaimed on May 14, 1948, one day before the expiry of the British Mandate for Palestine.[53] Not long after, five Arab countries – Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq – attacked Israel, launching the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[53] After almost a year of fighting, a ceasefire was declared and temporary borders, known as the Green Line, were instituted. Jordan annexed what became known as the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Egypt took control of the Gaza Strip. Israel was admitted as a member of the United Nations on May 11, 1949.[54] During the course of the hostilities, 711,000 Arabs, according to UN estimates, fled from Israel.[55] The fate of the Palestinian refugees today is a major point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[56][57]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel