No.
Israel was declared by the Jewish residents of British Mandate Palestine.
Some long-time multi-generational Jewish residents.
Some recently-arrived immigrants.
Who also had the right of sovereignty over their lands within Palestine.
Civil wars are nasty things, aren't they?
But the Early Statehood Declarer gets the bigger piece of the pie.
Too bad the Arabs weren't as well organized as the Jews, with respect to the Legal Particulars, on British Departure Day.
Of course, back then, the Arab-Muslims were a bit more interested in slaughtering the Jews and drowning them in the Med, rather than worrying about some future legal difficulty.
Short-sightedness, as well as martial incompetency - a sure recipe for Defeat.
Welcome to your Consequences.
Not true.
There has always been a modest Jewish presence in the Holy Land since the Destruction of Jerusalem and the beginning of the Diaspora in 70 A.D.
There were also several spasms of Jewish immigration back to the Holy Land after each major European pogrom, including a notable Messianic one back in the middle 1600s.
The pace of Jewish immigration back to the Holy Land began to accelerate after 1860 and it was running full-tilt by the 1890 timeframe when the Zionist movement really took off.
By the time of British Departure Day of 1948, the Holy Land contained...
1. descendants of that modest presence that remained in the Holy Land after 70 A.D.
2. descendants of various immigration spasms of the period 70 A.D. to 1860 A.D.
3. 1st and 2nd generation descendants of the immigrants of the period 1860 A.D. to 1939 A.D., when Hitler came to power in Germany.
4. 1st generation immigrants fleeing Europe in the period 1939-1945; the handfuls that managed to escape, that is.
5. 1st generation immigrants from Europe in the large-scale Jewish departure from Europe in the period 1945-1948; what were left of them, anyway.
Many from each of those five groups of Jews owned considerable parcels of the Holy Land, legitimately purchased or inherited, and, once the Zionist movement had taken root in the 1890s, Jews were encouraged to buy-up as much land as they could, to make it Jewish.
All true, I'm afraid; your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.
"...Israel was the project of the foreign World Zionist Organization. Israel is a foreign power imposed on Palestine by military force..."
Oh, various Jewish or Zionist worldwide organizations did, indeed, conceive of various tactics for a Jewish Return and encouraged and marketed those plans and marketed the idea of large-scale modern immigration.
But the people who actually executed those plans and declared Statehood were all residents of British Mandate Palestine at the time of the British Departure; residents (citizens) possessing considerable tracts of land and the rights relating to such ownership.
"...Of the 37 people who signed Israel's declaration of independence, only one was born in Palestine and he was the son of immigrants. There were no native Jews in this foreign project."
Doesn't matter. They were established residents of British Mandate Palestine, many of them landowners and businessmen and other stakeholders. Residents. Citizens. Doesn't matter where they were born, but where they were citizens at the time of the Split.
And, don't Immigrant-Citizens have all the rights of Native-Citizens?
They do here.
They do in most other civilized places, as well.
The Jews of 1948 did not just beat 'you' militarily in the field.
They also bested you on the real estate acquisition front.
And the political front.
And the legal front.
On any front that you'd care to name, actually.
The Jews had their $hit together, and 'you' did not.
Welcome to your consequences.
