The term "we" may refer to the US as a part of the United Nations collectively, and our actions in terms of supporting Israel ....
while they continued to get away with this de facto theft ....
Look up and read about "
Nakba_Day" .... and the
1948_Palestinian_exodus ....
The issue may go back even further than that .... back to the 1920's ....
Count Folke Bernadotte said on 16 September 1948:
"No settlement can be just and complete if recognition is not accorded to the right of the Arab refugee to return to the home from which he has been dislodged. It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and indeed, offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries ..."
It should be noted that in 1948 at the Lausanne Conference, Israel originally
agreed to allow a right of return ....
and has since repeatedly reneged on that promise ....