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> The fact that some of the founders of Israel were the descendants of those who fled their native lands

Only some founders were foreigners? Do you want the full list? Literally none, 0%, were "native", born in the region or anywhere near it, here's the full list of people who signed it and where they came from:

- David Ben-Gurion (Poland)

- Daniel Auster (Ukraine)

- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Ukraine)

- Mordechai Bentov (Poland)

- Eliyahu Berligne (Belarus)

- Fritz Bernstein (Germany)

- Rachel Cohen-Kagan (Ukraine)

- Eliyahu Dobkin (Belarus)

- Yehuda Leib Fishman (Moldova)

- Wolf Gold (Poland)

- Meir Grabovsky (Moldova)

- Avraham Granovsky (Moldova)

- Yitzhak Gruenbaum (Poland)

- Kalman Kahana (Poland)

- Eliezer Kaplan (Belarus)

- Avraham Katznelson (Belarus)

- Saadia Kobashi (Yemen)

- Moshe Kolodny (Belarus)

- Yitzhak-Meir Levin (Poland)

- Meir David Loewenstein (Denmark)

- Zvi Luria (Poland)

- Golda Meyerson (Ukraine)

- Nahum Nir (Poland)

- David-Zvi Pinkas (Hungary)

- Felix Rosenblueth (aka Pinchas Rosen) (Germany)

- David Remez (Belarus)

- Berl Repetur (Ukraine)

- Zvi Segal (Poland)

- Mordechai Shatner (Ukraine)

- Ben-Zion Sternberg (Ukraine)

- Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (Morocco)

- Haim-Moshe Shapira (Belarus)

- Moshe Shertok (Ukraine)

- Herzl Vardi (Lithuania)

- Meir Vilner (Lithuania)

- Zerach Warhaftig (Belarus)

- Aharon Zisling (Belarus)

37 signatories, and not a single one were from that land or had any clear links to it whatsoever. You act like it was to protect the locals but not a single one was present? How much clearer do you want to it to be? It was a land grab from the very beginning