“So your saying that what happened is that Jews were just emigrating with no intention of taking control of the land, the Arabs attacked them for this, and then they decided to declare a state after fighting back?”
Yes, because that’s exactly what happened. Liberal revisionist historians claim otherwise and say we “forcefully invaded” the land. The intentions of the immigrants are irrelevant; the point is, the Arabs are the ones that started the aggression.
Arabs did not like the Jews prior to Zionism. That’s just a flat out myth. Antisemitism is mandated by the Quran; we’ve literally always had problems with them.