Core of today's Israel actually purchased and paid for!

Since I got involved in the topic of Israel and the Middle East during the Lebanon war, every day I find more and more interesting factoids.

Here is one that should enter public consciousness, and used as proof against hate-mongering propaganda. Even is we ignore the fact that there was accountable Jewish presence at all times throughout the last two millenia, during the British Mandate fervent zionists with a dream about re-establishing their homeland kept purchasing land there. By 1948 most of the core of the present day country was in their hands. If the Holocaust did not happen, eventually all of present day's Israel would have been bought up anyway. But the urgency created by the tragedy pushed the international community to speed up the creation of a haven for the displaced and the orphans of the concentration camps.