text: Edo9- Even if you don't think Jews have a biblical claim to the land, in 1947/8 the UN declared two states-Palestine and Israel. The Jews accepted the partition plan; the Arabs refused. In 1967, Egypt & Jordan staged an attack & Israel won, taking East Jerusalem & the Sinai. In 1972, all of Israel's Arab neighbours attacked. Israel won & took the West Bank and Gaza. If keeping land you take in wars others provoke (when you wanted peace) is called occupation, then the world has much bigger fish to fry than Israel. When Egypt made peace in 1979, Israel immediately returned all of the Sinai. When Israel left Gaza in 2005, instead of building the nucleus of a sovereign state, Hamas torched the settlers houses and greenhouses left behind & launched rockets into Israel. Israel does not have an 'all or nothing' attitude. Every peace deal Israel accepted was rejected from Arafat to Abbas and Hamas promises to flood East Jerusalem with terrorists when Israel gives it up. Ain't gonna happen.