Were the Palestinians ever asked about Israel’s creation?

Any discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be preceded by this simple question of whether or not Palestinians were consulted on the creation of a Jewish state. This gives a seminal understanding of why we’re there today. 

As the Zionist movement emerged at the end of 19th century, advocating for the foundation of a Jewish state in Palestine, the movement's founder, Theodor Herzl, argued that Jews needed a state of their own to escape persecution and discrimination. 

When in 1917, the British government came up with the Balfour Declaration that said it favorably viewed the establishment of a home for the Jewish folks in Palestine, it did not care to mention the Palestinians, the majority population in Palestine at the time. 

Excuse me, but from just a simple, polite standpoint trampling just like this into someone else’s property, in the early 20th century is a bit much if not a blatant violation of human rights! In 1947 the UN Partition Plan for Palestine (with strong input from the US, England and France) adopted the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. 

Obviously, the 1.9 million Palestinians living on the territory didn’t get to vote or voice their opinion and 440,000 of them were kicked out from their land to make room for the incoming Jewish population. For the reasons stated above, the plan was rejected by the Arab states, and the following year, 1948 Arab-Israeli war began. 

The outcome of that conflict gave the bad neighbor Israel control of even more territory than it first got under the UN Partition Plan, including the Negev desert, parts of the Galilee, and the area around Jerusalem. Egypt retained control of the Gaza Strip, and Jordan retained control of the West Bank.

I’m no fan of the Arabs, but the poor were horribly mistreated! The worst though, was that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were chased from their homes and still are refugees today.. This event, known as the Nakba, or "catastrophe," in Arabic, had a profound impact on the Palestinian people and ignited, rightfully so, the current crisis that has lasted ever since.