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the israelis initiated the hostile actions
look it up
The Israelis accepted the UN partition. The Arabs rejected it and attacked.
But hey, let's look it up!
While the Jewish community accepted the 1937 and 1947 partition plans, the Palestinian Arab leadership, dominated by the Husseini family, rejected both plans categorically. Indeed, most Palestinians turned down the 1937 design, even though it designated only 20 percent of Palestine to the proposed Jewish state.
The United Nations General Assembly decided in 1947 on the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem to be an internationalised city. Jewish representatives in Palestine (the Jewish Agency) accepted the plan tactically - though with reluctance - because it implied international recognition for their aims of establishing a state, but on lesser territory than they considered a legal and historical right to.
The Palestinians and Arabs felt that it was a deep injustice to ignore the rights of the majority of the population of Palestine. The Arab League and Palestinian institutions rejected the partition plan, and formed volunteer armies that infiltrated into Palestine beginning in December of 1947.....
Israel declared itself a state along those borders. It was attacked in order to wipe it out. In the following war (in which it was incredibly outnumbered and outgunned), Israel managed to consolidate the earlier, spread-out territories into a coherent whole and create semi-defensible (with one major exception) borders. The Arabs chose to gamble on wiping out Israel and taking 100% of the land. They lost.