“Great Britain and its UN allies made a decision and implemented it.”

This is bs historic revisionism. Britain abstained from the UN vote. The leading yes votes were the U.S. and the Soviet Union (with its three votes), joined by a bunch of European and South American countries, and a few others. It was essentially a vote to extricate Britain (and others) from its colonialist role in the region, and in Africa, a process that took about 20 years.

There was no provision in the 1947 resolution for any expulsion or ethnic cleansing of the two proposed states. Israel accepted the plan. The other side rejected it and chose war. You cannot understand the Nakba without understanding the Arabs’ choice to try and wipe out the Jewish presence in Palestine. And you cannot understand the founding of Israel without reading its Declaration of Independence which promised equal rights to people of all faiths.

Albaby cast an “envious eye” to the creation of two states as a solution to an ethnic conflict, not to the unfortunate consequences of mass displacement. There are examples in modern history of multiethnic states that ended up badly, such as Lebanon and the former Yugoslavia. Why would Israelis wish for a Lebanese fate? Why would anyone wish it for them?