In 1922, following World War I, the League of Nations (the predecessor of the UN) gave the British Empire a Mandate to run the county in preparation for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”, in recognition of “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine”, while preserving the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine )

In 1947, based on the 1922 resolution and toward the end of the British Mandate, the UN Security Council divided the land into a Jewish/Israeli and an Arab/Palestinian state according to the areas where the two people were concentrated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine ). Israel fully accepted this partition (as well as earlier partition plans). In contrast, the Palestinians and the surrounding Arab nations rejected this compromise and tried to conquer the whole land. They lost that war, and Israel gained a bit more territory. Palestinian chose not to establish their own state in the remaining area, so the West Bank (i.e., the Arab-held area west of the Jordan River) became Jordanian and the Gaza strip became part of Egypt. In 1967 the neighboring Arab countries again tried to eradicate the State of Israel. Again they lost, and Israel gained control over the previously Jordanian-held area of the West Bank and the Egyptian-held area of the Gaza Strip.

Again and again Palestinians and the neighboring countries refused territorial compromise. They are now asked again to accept an Israeli State in this land. Nonetheless, they are still offered control over the areas where most Palestinians live. In recent years, Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak (Camp David, 2000) and later Ehud Olmert (Annapolis, 2007) offered the Palestinian leaders an Arab-Palestinian nation-state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including a capital in East Jerusalem, in exchange for their recognition of an Israeli Hebrew/Jewish nation-state in the pre-1967 borders. These offers were rejected without any counteroffer.