No. Israel didn't spawn out of a void. It developed as the result of several forces that included the need for Jews to find safety from increasing pogromist violence, rallying to the ideas of Zionism, & the support promised by the Balfour Declaration. But Britain enacted the declaration with ambivalence throughout—they had made similar promises of Arab nationalism—finally declaring that it had never intended sovereignty for Jews at all. In fact, it didn't mean anything at all.

What do you suppose would have happened if the UN hadn't voted partition? Do you think the Jews of the Yishuv would have just packed up & gone home? Where was that? And, anyway Britain abstained from the partition vote. The US voted yes, & also recognized Israel post-declaration. But that was it. They offered no material support during Israel's war of independence.

Meanwhile British authorities declared capital punishment for any Jew found carrying arms. Several were executed thus, while others sentenced to long prison terms simply for having ammunition on their persons. If that's your idea of support ... okay.

You accuse me of playing semantics when I completely agree Israel performed ethnic cleansing. Then you turn around & insist the Holocaust was the "tamest" of genocides by playing numbers? Really, dude? Read a book. Or two.

Finally, on the subject of semantics, the word "genocide" is so overused of late as to risk losing all meaning. Not every atrocity or war crime is a genocide. And that is certainly not what is going on in Gaza or the West Bank. Since you're so wrapped up in numbers explain how the Palestinians are experiencing genocide when their numbers have more than quadrupled since '48.