The Arab states chose to reject the 1947 UN Partition Plan that created both an Arab State and a Jewish state with the region that is now Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. And instead of petitioning the UN for a different plan, instead of proposing changes that would be acceptable, they chose to attack the newly founded state. They lost that war.


They started it, they lost it. I feel little sympathy for the Arab states as political entities, I feel sorry for the poverty stricken, misguided arabs that get shelled because they choose to support militant terrorism. Or maybe I don't feel too sorry.