[dfwgator]

At best they were dirt farmers at worse outright criminals that no one was interested enough to chase down.

Why should that be Israel's problem?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They were willing to take it, and them on. They were told to stay where they were and become citizens of the State of Israel. The smart ones did.

The stupid ones listened to their fellow Arabs who told them to leave, that they would squash Israel, kill all the Jews and they could move back in and get all the loot.

Didn't quite work out as planed.

So there they were, out of their homes, across the border and Israel was not going to let them back in. They had openly declared themselves enemies.

The nations that attacked Israel suddenly found these undesirables parked on their doorstep permanently. They didn't like it much.

So they passed laws that "Palestinians" could not own property or open businesses or do a bunch of other things to encourage them to "push the Jews into the sea".

And here we are.

It was a bit more complicated then that but not much.