Ben-Gurion declared it and the President of the US recognised it on the same day.
Game over.
The armies attacked after.
Regarding Gaza.Israel seeks to destroy Hamas and to do this they are slaughtering civilians on an industrial level,the numbers don`t matter.10,000.Why not 20,000.They are only collateral damage,only Arabs right?Not God`s chosen people like yourself.After all you have an excuse,the Holocaust..the get of jail free card to to slaughter with impunity.Having the US in your pocket also helps of course.
Regarding the Nakba.Jews ethnically cleansed a large number of Palestinians from their own lands so that Jews could make a homeland.Many Palestinians were massacred,villages were razed to the ground so they did not exist any more and 700,000 people fled.
What is happening in Gaza is not comparable to the Nakba.
The frustating thing about all this is the fact that Jews whose DNA is European think they have the right to a land on the Eastern Mediterranean whose indigenous population is Arabic.When the Palestinians fight back against their colonisers they are branded terrorists.The fact that you have no empathy with the civilians being slaughtered is the reason why anti-semitism is alive and kicking and not going away until the Palestinians have their own state.