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The boundary was not defined in 1947. Upon independence Israel did not declare the boundaries of the country or its administrative area. There was a partition plan at the U.N., but since the Arabs rejected it (even though the Israelis did not) the plan is not legally binding.
In case you haven't noticed, the U.N. doesn't usually determine state boundaries. Post-war Germany may have been an exception, but that's because the U.N. was the forum of convenience. Boundaries are determined bilaterally between states.
It wasn't just Britain, it was the League of Nations, and before that the Ottoman Caliph and the British working together. (Yes, the Caliph sanctioned Jewish settlement of Palestine in the Treaty of Sevres.) You have to fit yourself into the post-WWI period: three empires - Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman - were broken up into nation-states. Boundaries were drawn. Peoples migrated. The British Mandate wasn't a particularly unusual arrangement.
By the terms of the Mandate, Arabs and Jews were supposed to respect each other's civil and property rights in the areas that came under their political control. The Arabs nevertheless kicked the Jews out of Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, and you have no problem with that. Israel, on the other hand, is 20%+ Arab, many of these keep their ancestral property, and some areas, like the Galilee, are now majority Arab.
The "Palestinians" are the descendants of those who fought against the nascent Jewish State and fled; by the law and practice of the Ottomans (no one knew this better than Ben-Gurion, who trained as a lawyer in Turkey) they had forfeited their civil and property rights within the Mandate area.
Not all of these Arabs ended up outside Israel - some have resettled elsewhere within the Jewish State - but the depressing conclusion, for those supporters of "Palestinians" who care about facts, is that these Arabs have neither a legal claim nor a moral claim on Israeli territory. They are simply badly behaved welfare recipients who receive the pity and charity of the world with resentment and violence.
So you see, I'm not the one being "selective" here, am I?
Yes you are selective. What British did was colonization and league of nation just followed that line as a result it dissolved eventually. Even in 1947 UN acted with colonization mindset that was clear to many that is the reason most of the countries in Asia and Africa those who were victim of colonization rejected the formation of this state including India and China which was absent.
Regarding jewish migration it was allowed as a refuge those who were victim of anti semitism not for forming a separate state only for them victimizing the local population. Under no law it is allowed by a colonial power to bring foreign nationals and calling a separate state without taking consent of the local population. Israel has no right whatsoever to declare its border as it is an artificially created state taking land of other nationals. No people will accept anything as such which we had seen in the case of aboriginal people of Australia, Canada and USA. We have also seen the struggle of the South African black people against the foreign white migrants.
Palestine was part of Ottoman empire then it went under colonization when the colonial power created all these problem due to influence of some racist ideology and apocalyptic view. It does not mean that some foreign migrants got the right to do whatever it wants with the land depriving the local population. Israel has only two way to follow legally either to accept 1967 border or an one state solution. Not only UN but also EU, International Court and legal adviser of US State department in 1978 declared all settlement activity is illegal which so far never been changed or altered so far.
Soon apartheid regime will face the same situation like the apartheid regime of South Africa. Most of the country in the world condemned it and called illegal settlement illegal.