Israel's Existence

As long as I can remember I have always heard, "Israel has a right to exist." and "The Arab countries need to recognize Israel's right to exist." Never have I heard any sort of a logical explanation to support these statements. I'm not really into Middle Eastern mythology and do not buy into the "God gave us this land" reason, even though the Mormons recycled the same scam a few years later. By the way, were you aware that God gave me Marin County, California last week. Swear to God!
The explanation for the existence of Israel that makes the most sense to me is the European and American Jews were pissed off about pogroms and decided it was Zion time. The European governments thought this was a great idea, too and supported the idea of getting them out of Europe. Truman saw it as a way to gain votes in New York. Arabs were non-entities back in the forties, similar to American Indians in this country. With American and European military hardware they were then able to defeat the Arabs who outnumbered them four to one. Here's the great part. They then kicked most of the Arabs out of "Israel" and disenfranchised remaining non-Jews in order to create a democracy. That would be like carving out a large chunk of the United States, herding most of the conservatives into Texas and North Dakota, only allowing progressives to vote in their new country and having the balls to declare themselves a beacon of democracy.
The one constant over the last 58 years has been the Palestinian position: "Regardless of whether America, Europe or anyone else recognizes you as a country, the fact remains that you stole our land to create it and there can never be peace until we recover what is ours." The claim is a valid one and, by refusing to acquiesce, the claim remains in force. Time only works in favor of the occupier if there is a significant period of inaction by the victim.