Deeper understanding of why Israel was created

This history is really important to convey, especially when some pro Palestine groups are continually shouting about Israelis being colonisers.

Colonisation is a process that involves people going to an overseas country and living there primarily to service the mother country they came from. So English colonisers in Zimbabwe, or Portuguese ones in Brazil for example.

By contrast, the Jews going to Israel, both before and after WW2, were going there as individuals, not in the service of a mother country. And as OP says, many of these people came there out of desperation after huge amounts of suffering in various countries across Europe.

That version of events has been pretty widely challenged now, even by Israeli historians. Most Palestinians didn’t just “leave”, they were expelled or fled because of violence, and over 400 villages were destroyed afterwards so they couldn’t return.

Some land was sold, but it was a tiny amount (less than 7%) often by absentee landlords under British rule. The idea that Arab leaders told people to leave has also been debunked- most were terrified and forced out during the fighting.

You can absolutely understand why Jewish people needed safety after the Holocaust and still recognise that Palestinians were displaced in the process. But none of that justifies what’s happening now- the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people, including so many children.

I completely agree that Jewish people desperately needed safety after the Holocaust-that’s undeniable. But it’s also true that when Britain held the Mandate, Palestinians were already the vast majority living there, farming the land, paying taxes, and governed locally.

So while it’s technically right that the British “administered” the territory, it doesn’t mean the land was uninhabited or up for grabs. It already had an existing population with homes, farms, and villages. That’s where so much of the current pain stems from- people who’d lived there for generations suddenly losing their land and rights without having any say.

Jewish people needed refuge and Palestinians were displaced in the process.

It wasn't "only" the holocaust. Jews have been persecuted, murdered and violated for centuries include the progroms in Eastern Europe, the expulsion of all Jews from England and across Europe and the horrific Crusade Massacres. They have never been safe from violence and the instantaneous seizure of everything they own.

The majority of land (over 90%) was owned by Palestinian Arabs, who also made up around two-thirds of the population. The 1947 UN Partition Plan proposed giving over half of that land to a new Jewish state, even though Jewish people owned less than 7% of it. That imbalance is one of the main reasons the plan was rejected and why mass displacement followed.

It has been going on for thousands of years:

https://www.un.org/unispal/about-the-nakba/

You mean re-created. Israel has come and gone as a country for millennia depending on who invaded/had power.

I really don't give a fuck who "owns" it.

I just wish they would all live there peacefully and stop trying to kill each other.

After the second world war the jews needed a country of their own so the UN gave them Israel. Problem was, it wasn't theirs to give.