Given an opportunity? By who? The British Empire? Stateless, is a term of ‘art’. The ‘geographical area was occupied – state or not – by ‘Arab’ peoples with a culture wedded to the local and a culture reaching back eons – an indigenous people. Established and in place. Self-governing. An ongoing campaign to occupy the region has a history of approximately 100 years. The arrival of Jewish settlers, a quaint misnomer for ‘colonization’ of an already occupied ‘geographical’ region is by any other term: an invasion. The overlay for the justification is nonsensical twaddle extricated from mythology cobbled together from various ancient myths – that’s the PR handout for the rubes. The rhetoric of the so-called founders is basely bigotry – ‘an outpost of civilisation against barbarism’ – a land without a people for a people without land and other boorish drivel. Palestine as terra nullius. And, you are aware of the Balfour Agreement, a decree by the potentates that ruled the British Empire. Not an Arab among them. The progenitors and early apostles of Zionism proudly embraced the colonial nature of their project. The “iron wall” of bayonets being imperative, uttered in the 1920s by a prominent Zionist. Such being whitewashed post-WW2, Zionism being the coddled stepchild of British colonialism aka imperialism. The state of Israel birthed in sabotage & terrorism, from its inception. You one of many who airbrush history. A history of which you are less than cognizant.