Britain dropped the ball on this file and they realized it almost immediately post war.
It is Israels land. I recall having a discussion with a Palestenian guy in a major U.S corporation here and he demanded that the borders be moved back to "1948!". With some passion.
I told him my honest opinion, "you can't live in history, time to move on and find peace in the region". If everyone had their historical grievances met we'd never move on.
Hell after WWII, I just learned as I am a sponge for history and WWII has been the most revealing of our species certainly in modern times, both in terms of the depraved, evil and the courageous, noble within our DNA; the number of people held accountable in Nuremberg was disgustingly low.
I never knew the above until just recently. We are talking about 1000s of former nazi murderers, some responsible for 10s of thousands of murders of civilians simply went back to their jobs as policemen in West Germany. Some caught on hidden camera talking in great detail of the murder of kids only a few years prior (well, it would have been 40-50 years prior, but still).
It is not only Jewish land the world needed to return their home as clearly the evil they had to face every few generations is unsustainable. A religion that has contributed so much from such a small minority of our civilization truly is breathtaking when one ponders it all.
So, the long and short of it is simple in my mind, regardless of the arguments and I am not insensitive to those who lost their homes 80 years ago; it is time to move on. It was Jewish land centuries ago. The last 18 years should be used as a measuring stick of intent under independent Gazan rule. The activities of Hamas, funded by terrorist states such as Iran confirmed what Israelis know all too well.