that's the problem I have with Israel - you don't just take land that belongs to someone else and say that it belongs to you.  If the Israelis really wanted peace and their own state, they would have built their country elsewhere.

But Israel was established where it was. We aren't in 1918 or even 1947. At this point your argument is no different from the Israeli hard right one that if the Palestinians want a state they can just leave the West Bank and go establish one elsewhere.