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I'm ready to say:
'Really? Get on with it already.'
It never ends.
I'm thinking Israelis want the borders proposed in the closing days of the Ottoman empire, 25 years before the modern state was recognized:
British Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument) : League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan Memorandum
The British Mandate for Palestine, or simply the Mandate for Palestine, was a legal commission for the administration of the territory that had formerly constituted the Ottoman Empire sanjaks of Nablus, Acre, the Southern portion of the Beirut Vilayet, and the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, prior to the Armistice of Mudros. The draft of the Mandate was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, supplemented via the 16 September 1922 Transjordan memorandum[1][2] and then came into effect on 29 September 1923[1] following the ratification of the Treaty of Lausanne.[3][4] The mandate ended at midnight on 14 May 1948.
The document was based on the principles contained in Article 22 of the draft Covenant of the League of Nations and the San Remo Resolution of 25 April 1920, by the principal Allied and associated powers after the First World War.[1] The mandate formalised British rule in the southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923–1948.
The formal objective of the League of Nations Mandate system was to administer parts of the defunct Ottoman Empire, which had been in control of the Middle East since the 16th century, "until such time as they are able to stand alone."[5] The mandate document formalised the creation of two British protectorates: Palestine, to include a national home for the Jewish people, under direct British rule, and Transjordan, an Emirate governed semi-autonomously from Britain, under the rule of the Hashemite family.[1]
The entire piece is worth the read to an open mind. That way of thinking is from empire, and Europe had fought for centuries against the Middle Eastern empires who expanded into Europe. The waxing and waning of these empires had profound effects. Now we see that other empires are seeking to follow the past in both the Islamic world view and Russian world view.
Americans can scarcely imagine what millenia of wars created in those regions. The founders wanted us to escape repeating that history, but it's proven impossible to ignore it, unfortunately.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine_%28legal_instrument%29
That was post WW1. The supporters of Palestinians in some corners have a larger agenda, the return of the Caliphate. ISIS is following that model, in fact they want more than what any of the previous caliphates did.
A generation after WW1, Europe literally tore itself to pieces between the 1930s and the end of WW2 prior to 1947-48.
But this plan was in effect for 25 years before and AFAIK, the areas in the mandate weren't actually involved, even if some of citizens were supporters of either side in WW2. I've read some reports of the Third Reich being supported by some of the Middle East, which also accounts for Israeli animus, not to mention ancient enemies they have not forgotten, either.
Israel's 1947 founding and the 1948 Israeli-Arab War
Left map: Passia; center and right maps: Philippe Rekacewicz / Le Monde Diplomatique
These three maps show how Israel went from not existing to, in 1947 and 1948, establishing its national borders. It's hard to identify a single clearest start point to the Israel-Palestine conflict, but the map on the left might be it: these are the borders that the United Nations demarcated in 1947 for a Jewish state and an Arab state, in what had been British-controlled territory. The Palestinians fought the deal, and in 1948 the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria invaded. The middle map shows, in green, how far they pushed back the Jewish armies. The right-hand map shows how the war ended: with an Israeli counterattack that pushed into the orange territory, and with Israel claiming that as its new national borders. The green is what was left for Palestinians.
Another map:
And perhaps it's past time for Israel's leaders to remember what the man who considered himself to be the father of the modern state of Israel, Abba Eban, once said: “Israel’s birth is intrinsically and intimately linked with the idea of sharing territory and sovereignty.”
A very long read with links showing how we got from then to now:
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Israel%20Indefensible%201967%20Borders%20Nakba.htm
Israel has surrendered a lot of territory in their minds to meet the UN standards and have become belligerent:
What the UN envisioned:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/19/israel-map-the-palestinia_n_864379.html
We're about as likely to get them to agree with the UN position as Putin is likely to give back Crimea, or we are going to give back the land we now hold to either the native americans or the Confederacy. They are a sovereign nation and every attack on a Jewish person anywhere in the world only heightens their sense of isolation and hard-headedness. The main victims in this, the former subjects of the Caliphate, are unlikely to change their belief system. They want a return to those conditions that favored their system.
That's all I have time for now. I was searching for an even larger map of what Israel was, but have to do some things offline.
The Palestinians' situation, which is already horrible, will get far worse. 
