The problem with that thinking is that it ignores the historical reality that, for a lot of people, they are living where their ancestors lived. Many Palestinian Muslims will be the descendants of Jews, Samaritans, Christians and others who converted to Islam hundreds of years ago.
I am not sure that others, who lay claim to the land based on things that ended 1500 years ago to other people, have as strong a claim.
Sure.
I see your point about validity of historical and genealogical claims and it may have been all so different today if it wasn’t for Nazi Germany and WWII.
If I understand correctly. After WWII there were many thousands of displaced Jews in Europe who decided that, given what had just happened to them in the last decade they would return to their “spiritual” homeland (administered at the time by the British). This spiritual homeland claim I believe came from their genetic links to the ancient tribes of Israel Judah and before that the Canaanites who lived in the region.
So you had a situation where there was a sudden, huge influx of Jewish people into the land of Palestine many of whom were Engineers, craftsmen, architects, doctors etc. and who then quickly set about creating a new modernistic progressive society.
Meanwhile the Palestinians who were there already, were simple farmers, goat-herders and fisherman like they’d been for centuries before.
So it became apparent that the new modern Jewish state grew and expanded quickly, overcoming and overwhelming the Palestinians. With the Palestinian society being left behind and marginalised.
The rest is (pardon the pun) history.
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