India was governed by the British for a long time. The population were Indian. Algeria was governed by the French for a shorter period of time But the population were not French.
You might like to console yourself with the fact that Palestinians have never governed the land they live in. But whoever was governing the place whether it was the Ottomans(400 years), Egypt, Jordan, the British, Selzuk Turks, or the Mamluk dynasty, the majority of the population were Arabs.
For 12 centuries the Arabs of Palestine had their home in Palestine. The Guvnors came and went.
There hasn't been a Jewish majority in Palestine since the 2nd Century AD.
In 1800 there were 7,000 Jews as opposed to 270, 000 Arabs.
100 years later, after the first Zionists had arrived, the Jewish population had expanded to 43k. Still dwarfed by the nearly half a million Arabs.
By the time of supposed partition nearly 700,000 Jews lived in Palestine. Only a third of the population but nevertheless it highlights the massive immigration that took place.
No wonder the indigenous population were pissed off.