Obviously, Arabs who lived in Palestine prior to '48 and their descendants.
The best plan for conquerors is to destroy the conquered.
The next best plan is to evict them from their former homeland.
Isreal was never strong enough to execute the first two. This is next best.
Sorry, what you think was Palestine was a part of Jordan called Trans-Jordan. Before that it was under British control after the Turks who were there were defeated during WW I. There was no Palestine.
Tell me when there ever was a nation named Palestine. Palestine is an area, not a nation.
Not so fast. First, by that definition many Israelis are "palestinian". Second, the definition of "palestinian refugees" was set by the UN to include anyone who lived in the British mandate territory for two years or more. The vast majority of the "disposessed palestinians" were in fact Egyptians who migrated to the area to take advantage of good employment offered by Jews. To hear them tell it, of course, they've lived their since before Goliath died...
The best plan for conquerors is to destroy the conquered.
The next best plan is to evict them from their former homeland.
Isreal was never strong enough to execute the first two. This is next best.
That's wrong on so many levels. First, the Israelis are more than powerful enough to eradicate the Palestinians, if that's what they wanted to do. Relocating them would be a snap. They have defeated the entire Arab world at once before, and can do it again. The reason they don't is that it would violate Jewish ethics. Instead they show mercy, even when it makes themselves targets.
But in addition to that, the whole idea that the Israelis "invaded" and "disposessed" an indigenous population is simply false. The original UN border was drawn the way it was because the territory of Israel contained a vast Jewish majority, and the areas given to the Arabs had an Arab majority. The border describes the reality of the population, not an act of seizure. Your summary is consistent with Pali propaganda on every level, and just as wrong.
Israel was strong enough, but the US and the Soviets wouldn't allow it to use it's strength. If the Soviets hadn't warned the US that if we didn't stop Israel from advancing further into Egypt and Syria in the 1973 war they would intervene militarily on the side of their Arab allies, Israel would have destroyed the entire armed forces of both Egypt and Syria.