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207. Actually their land was not taken from them, but part of the British Mandate after the collapse of

the Ottoman empire. The British mandate was a legal document for the British Administration of lands that once belonged to the Ottoman empire.

636 BCE Palestine was conquered by the Islamic Empire.
661 CE was made part of the uncontested Caliphate of the Islamic World after being crowned in Jerusalem.
691 the Dome of the Rock was built.
750 The Umayyad were replaced by the Abbasids
878 Palestine was ruled from Egypt by semi-autonomous rulers
969 The Fatimids conquered the region in 969.
1073 Palestine was captured by the Great Seljuq Empire,
1098 Palestine was recaptured by the Fatimids
1099 Crusaders Conquered Palestine
1187 Saladin Conquered Palestine and it was controlled the Ayyubids.
1248 The Mamaluk Sultanate in Egypt controlled the region
1260 The Mongol Empire reached Palestine and the fought the Mamalukes for it until 1486,
1516 The Ottoman Turks conquered the region.
1923, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate in Palestine was created by the league of nations.
1924 French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon formed by the League of Nations after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
1928 Transjordan formed from lands held by the British mandate in Palestine.
November 22, 1943 Lebanon became independent form French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
May 14, 1948 Israel founded in the former British Mandate.

As you can see by the brief timeline, the land was not taken any more than Transjordan, or Syria, or Lebanon were taken. Those were new states created from the old Ottoman Empire.

And the US would not accept the Jewish refugees. Only those with very close relatives living in the United States were allowed to immigrate. No nation in the world wanted a few million Jewish refugees, so the UN took part of the British Mandate, that managed those lands after the collapse of the Ottoman Turks, and created Israel. Either the UN or the League of Nations created nations states out of those old lands and, incidentally, drew those borders that ignore the ethnic and tribal makeup of the region.