He was the leader of the Zionist Forces fighting the Palestinian and he was also a Lawyer, so he would know the meaning of the word "STOLEN".
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal;we have taken their country.It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs.There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have "STOLEN their country". Why would they accept that?”
David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.