bencooper, the Israeli people were the minority in that region, the Palestinians were the majority. The Palestinian peoples did not invest in weapons, they used their money to construct homes and schools and other social structures.
The Israelis on the other hand invested in weapons and a strong militia, the Israelis then removed the Palestinian peoples by force and kept all of their possession. The took their homes and personal belonging as well as everything else they owned, like common muggers would.
Basically they robbed them of everything they had and justified it by saying it was their land god had given it to them. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB0DXF2ObPw[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiRBT02cBcY[/video]
So were there more Israelis than Palestinians?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93bqFeGh9gI[/video]