I endorse Fido's words on #5.
What is today Israel was, before 1948, an overwhelming Arab-majority area. Israel managed to become a Jewish-majority mainly by means of terrorist activities by groups such as the Irgun and IDF incursions against Arab villages: something that's been stated on IDF documents exposed by Israeli historian Benny Morris. That is, Israel hasn't become Jewish by buying land from Arabs, as is commonly alleged by its apologists (the lands Jews bought from Arabs by 48 made up about 7% of total Israeli territory). Moreover, it's known Zionists have from the beginning planned to make Israel a Jewish majority country by means of ethnic cleansing - or "forced population transfer", as Ben Gurion called it.
Israel was created arbitrarily by the UN General Assembly: the very institution Israel now tries to discredit since it no longer is advancing Zionist goals. And there were good reasons to say that Israel's creation was ill-thought out. Harry Truman is on the record saying that he supported Israel's creation because he was eyeing electoral support from Jewish Americans. Whether the Zionist enterprise was rational or sustainable doesn't seem bothered him. The Soviet Union, too, supported Israel out of self-interest: it believed IL could become a bulwark of socialism in the Middle-East. That is, Israel's creation - an enterprise which would clearly be cause of tensions and wars for the years to come - was made possible by petty self-interest on the part of the great powers (or yet their political parties!), not by some calculation which took into account the natives' welfare or regional stability.
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