Actually the same came be said of the Palestinians, with there refusal to accept anything, and after the UN voted to create Israel, it was the Palestinians that started the fighting in open warfare. If they had not gone to war, they would have most the area of Israel now.
There had been fighting long before that. There was the uprising of 1936, in response to the growing Israeli presence in the country and the increasingly strict rules the Arabs lived under compared to the Israelis. For example, the Israelis were allowed to form their own militia and carry firearms openly, while it was a crime punishable by death for an Arab to carry an heirloom dagger.
Except German acceptance started long before these children and grandchildren came on the scene.
The Germans had a little something called WW2 and the Holocaust to atone for. Which, again, is something the Europeans did and the Palestinians wound up paying the bill for, despite them not having a hand in it at all. If the Europeans were so bleeding heart about the Jews, why didn't any of
them offer their lands as a new homeland for the Holocaust survivors? Why is it the Palestinian who is forced to give up his ancestral lands to make amends for something he didn't do?
There is actually plenty of Palestine left in Arab hands. If you look at a map of the British mandate here
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WFaOZdbd...n-EFk_1XRqsCACLcB/s1600/mandate-palestine.jpg
You mean that big chunk of land we call 'Jordan'? Yeah, what a real privilege, being allowed to keep your land. Maybe the Pals and Jordanians can commiserate over their loss while they generously give their lands away to the European Jews, who've never been to this land for millennia.
The Israeli politicians had several opinions on this. Some radicals wanted to claim it all as "rightful Israeli land", and kick out the Jordanians too so the whole farce is applied to other Arabs. Others just wanted to dump the Palestinians there in reservations and the like, never mind they'd be tossed out of ancestral homes and places they've been living in for generations.
The whole point is, Germany's losses were the result of Germany's actions, and they happened after WW2, when they were too exhausted and tired to object and just wanted to rebuild. The Palestinians had every choice and issue forced on them, and when they resisted, people made them out to be the bad guys. The 1936 Revolt failed, so they tried the 1948 War. That failed, so they continued to be resentful and angry over choices they never made but were instead forced upon them.
You will see that even in 1970, the Arabs have 77% of the mandate by area. Since then the amount has gone up as Gaza and much of the West Bank has been given up by Israel. Let me also add that historical terms Gaza and West Bank is the best and richest areas in the region. The Palestinians actually have the plum areas.
Please stop lumping in Jordan with Palestine. It just shows ignorance of the situation on the ground. And Jordan is mostly desert, except for Irbid, Amman, and Kerak.
Calling the West Bank and Gaza "plum areas" is insulting. Gaza is one of the most heavily populated areas in the world, almost two million people stuck in a two-by-one kilometer area, and they have no control over their borders or their harbors. Gaza was effectively isolated and dependent on Israel's goodwill, and this was
before Israel and Gaza got into a prolonged cold/hot war for the past decade now. The main reason Israel wants to be rid of Gaza is because it's a demographics time bomb; ever since they conquered it in 1967, they never really managed to get it under their yoke, and they never could Hebrew-ify it because the Palestinians there breed like rabbits. They couldn't get enough settlers there, and if they keep it they'll end up buried up to their armpits in Arabs, which is severely damage the status and identity of the Israeli state.
While the West Bank is better off, it's still suffering from chunks of it being shaved off for settlements, plus a lot of the historically and religiously important areas are a bureaucratic battleground between Arab and Israeli authorities to claim as much of the Holy Land as possible. And the Israelis have by far the bigger and better budget.
This is an internal Arab issue which you cannot blame Israel for, Israel also took large numbers of Arab Jews, as did the Germans you quoted above and succeeded in integrating them, why not the Arabs.
Because by doing so, they break the very foundation of Israel. By accepting and assimilating the Arabs, Israel goes from "Hebrew State" to "Arab-Hebrew Dual Ethnic State". And to top it off, the Arabs breed
fast, so in a decade or so, it'll end up flipping over to being a Jewish minority in an Arab majority state - and into an Arab state. The Arabs will win simply by virtue of the ballot box, rendering the Israelis a minority in their own state - and that's something they created Israel to
avoid.
I can't blame Israel for the shitty neighborhood, nor for the governments overseeing the camps. However, when the Palestinian living in said camps under said regimes is stopped for the 20th time for a minor suspicion by the cops who clearly don't like him and don't want him there, the mystique of a Palestinian homeland is going to be much more alluring. And by dwelling on the loss - which was
forced on their parents and grandparents, by the way - they get more and more bitter about the forced handover of Palestinian territory to foreigners.
Again this cannot blame Israel for this, these Palestinians organisations were voted into power by the Palestinian people.
The PLO got into power because it was the only organization with any sense of organization or presence in the Palestinian territories, and it was the official representative of the Palestinians. Over time, however, it proved unable to stand up for Palestinian rights, as it was either forced to accept all Israeli demands on security and gain little back, or fight the Israeli government and get bitch-slapped down. Inevitably, the PLO is tainted as it's seen as a collaborator, and a more radical regime becomes the popular option.
It was not the Palestinians were not given the chance, it is because unlike the Germans and the Jews, in your words *they did not move on*.
Staying between other Arabs who had their own issues and weren't pleased with having to put up with them (introducing a new ethnic group to a system teeming with them doesn't improve stability), having no prospects, no choices, and having to swallow every bullshit others force on them. Like how Trump's "Deal of the Century" basically means the Pals have to eat shit and give up any claim to Jerusalem, their historic and religious ancestral capital.
Remember when Mahmoud Abbas went on Palestinian TV and started insulting Trump in what has to be the least professional action and most obvious public breakdown? It's because he knows he got fucked, hard and proper. For years, decades even, the PLO tried to show itself as "the moderate option", that working with the USA and Israel will bear fruit - only for Trump, in the most obvious Israel-pandering act possible, declares Jerusalem the sole capital of Israel, an act that previous US Presidents have been
very reluctant to make to avoid angering the Arabs, and then offers the Palestinians a token amount to shut up and take it like a good bitch. Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was also recently revealed to have offered Abbas US$25M to take the deal. An act which would have destroyed any remaining credibility or legitimacy for the PLO. Abbas knows he got fucked hard, and if he accepted the cash, he would have destroyed himself as a politician. He had the rug pulled out from under him, and his years of work as the 'moderate voice' have been undone in an instant. No wonder the man's mad; he's practically desperate at this point.
It's shit like this that pisses off the Palestinians. Someone else does shit and forces them to swallow it.