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yhavr

I didn't want to spread the answer too much, bit if you're asking.

> of an inhabited nation

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/nation

> a tribe of Native Americans or a group of Native American tribes that share the same history, traditions, or language

They're not native americans.

> a large area of land that is controlled by its _own_ government

Mandatory Palestine was controlled by British.

So it was not an inhabited nation, I guess.

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It had someone living there, those someone's weren't asked and their land handed over to someone else. If we see it from the perspective of it having being a British colonial project, then it's even worse having gone from one colonial master to another without asking the natives.

> and their land handed over to someone else

Well, they were offered a partition plan, and instead of further negotiations chose to start a war.

Multiple wars, in fact, and managed to fail all of them.

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