The green in these maps indicates land owned & controlled by Palestinians, while the white areas indicate land owned & controlled by Jews, and eventually owned &/or controlled by Israel. In 1946, Palestinians (including Druze & Bedouins too) owned 92% of the land, while Jews owned about 8%. In 1947, the United Nations proposed to allot 54% of the land to the Jews for a Jewish state, and 46% of the land to the Palestinians, who owned about twice as much. The Palestinians rejected this offer as unfair and resisted. The majority of people living on the land the UN envisioned as a Jewish state were not Jewish, and early Zionists knew they could not have a Jewish state with the majority that Christian & Muslim Palestinians composed. Consequently, early Zionist forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes & land. After Israel declared the Jewish state in May 1948 (following about half of the flight & expulsions of Palestinian refugees), surrounding countries attacked Israel on behalf of the Palestinians, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. But Israel emerged victorious (thanks in part to support from the U.S.) with an additional 24% of the land. By the end of the war, Israel controlled 78% of the land, and more than 750,000 Palestinians had either fled or been expelled from their homes & land in the Jewish state (Zionist forces destroyed more than 400 Palestinian villages). In 1967, Israel occupied all remaining Palestinian lands (the West Bank & Gaza Strip), and the process of expansion has continued with settlements, closures, and the Wall (see map), leaving Palestinians with the series of islands. Many people refer to these islands as "bantustans," like those in South Africa where Black people were confined during Apartheid (They, too, were allowed to call their areas "homelands" and elect officials, but they had virtually no control over their movement or resources). Another striking parallel is the situation of American Indians. Four demographic US maps over the past few hundreds of years would show how American Indians have gone from controlling most of the land to being confined to series of islands, or "reservations." (Map source: www.ThePeoplesVoice.org)