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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine
The Palestinian Arab leadership rejected any 2 state solution/division, so got organised to go to civil war to form a state (without Israel) And then with support from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq, (who had all voted against the partition plan) continued the war in 1948.
Egypt conquered the Gaza strip, and Transjordan annexing West Bank, expanding their own land. Israel got both of those in 1967.
To this day, though 55 UN member states still don't recognise Palestine, 28 UN member states don't recognise Israel.
Not a case of Palestinians being lazy.
If history had gone another direction, and say the first Arab Israel war went the other way, I'm not sure Palestine would have had it's own state anyway, as Egypt, Transjordan, Syria would have taken over, expelled the Jews and split the land spoils for themselves.
To the victor goes the spoils...