Original sentence: In approximately the same time frame, most Jews in Arab states fled, with most of them absorbed by Israel.Israel does not recognize enemy Palestinian combatants as soldiers and prosecutes them under Israeli criminal law.Nevertheless, the Security Council's opinion, as noted by the passed of Security Council resolution 242, emphasized "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war," setting the stage for controversy on the legal status of areas captured in 1967, and (according to some) in 1948.On the other hand, Israel invokes its sovereign right to self-defense as justification for targeted killings of enemy leaders
Edited sentence: Further Israeli claims are that the arabs, rejecting the 1947 UN partition plan by declaring war on Israel,.In approximately the same time frame, most Jews in Arab states fled (circa 400,000, mostly due to persecutions), with most of them absorbed by Israel.Israel does not recognize enemy Palestinian combatants as soldiers and prosecutes them under Israeli criminal law, for murdering innocent civilians.Nevertheless, the Security Council's opinion, as noted by the passed of Security Council resolution 242, emphasized "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war," setting the stage for controversy on the legal status of areas captured in 1967, and (according to few) in 1948.On the other hand, Israel invokes its sovereign right to self-defense as justification for targeted killings of enemy leaders of terrorist organisations.can not render certain areas occupied relying on the partition plan, while not recognizing Israel's sovereignity as a Jewish state under the same UN decision