Thank you. I am not a lawyer but have understood and believed this to be the case ever since those events unfolded.  It is a relief to actually have an honest accounting of the situation and not just the spin put on by the usual shysters. It is impossible to know for sure, but if Israel had taken the legal and more generous route all those many years ago, it is quite possible it would not have given birth to the polarization that has driven the whole mess that is the Middle East quagmire.