Daniel Levy

Britain is the colonial power.

It said it wants out.

It hands it to the UN.

The UN sets up a special commission.

It votes.

to partition the land between a Jewish state and a Palestinian Arab state.

The Jewish state is supposed to get about 55%.

The Palestinian Arab state, 45%.

When Israel is established, Israel then expands its territory immediately from 55% to 78%.

It icks out most of the Palestinian population.

That's known as the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe.

In 1967, Israel then takes that whole 100% of territory.

The Palestinians in the late 1980s said, you know what?

After everything that's happened, we'll accept a mini state on just 22% of the land.

That's supposed to be the premise of Oslo, of the peace process, of this idea of a West Bank, Gaza, Palestinian state.

But those borders have never been fixed.

So greater Israel to most people is about all the land that Palestinians still currently reside on.

To some, it expands much further.

Every single Israeli government since Israel took the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967, since the settlement project began moving Israeli citizens against international law into those Palestinian territories that are under Israeli occupation and administration, every government, labor, all they could, center right or center left,

has built and expanded those settlements.