Your history is unfortunately weak. The present-day land of Israel/Palestine had its first Jewish settlers thousands of years ago. The First Temple on the Temple Mount was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BCE, and the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. Islam, by contrast, came centuries later.
Over time, Jews were repeatedly conquered, displaced, and persecuted, eventually settling in different parts of the world, including Europe (Netanyahu’s family roots trace back to Poland). After WW2 and the Holocaust, the British oversaw the creation of a Jewish homeland in a portion of land that was originally theirs.
What happened next? On the very day of Israel’s declaration in 1948, the surrounding Arab Muslim nations attacked—yet Israel survived and has since become one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.
This is not a land grab. If, instead of Jews, another Muslim community had settled there, would there have been the same outrage? Highly doubtful. That shows this conflict is fundamentally religious, not territorial.
You say my history is weak lol.
Let me remind you that both Arabs and Jews are semites and are descendants of the original semites such as Abraham. The Jews comes from his one son Isaac and the Arabs come from his other son Ismael. Both have been around the same time, the only difference is that Jews formed a single identity much earlier because their religion is older. The Arab identity only form due to Islam. However, Arabs predate Islam by thousands of years and have been in the Levant for thousands of years before Islam. Have you heard of Philip the Arab? He was a Roman emperor in the 3rd century AD, who was a Levantine Arab born in Syria.
Both Jews and the Levantine Arabs are from the region, and Palestinians are also Levantine Arabs. Both are indigenous. DNA studies show that both peoples are descended from the Canaanites, who were semites and were the original inhabitants of the land. However, while the Palestinians have lived in the land since time immemorial, the Jews were kicked out by the Romans and moved to other lands including Europe. The European Jews, predominantly the Ashkanazis are predominantly descended from male Jews who migrated to Europe and married European women. DNA results show their maternal line to be white European.
However to the point of land, let me educate on what happened. The issue started in the 1850s when the Ottomans who ruled the Levant, introduced land reform laws where before people who lived in their ancestral lands with no record keeping (the Fellahin Arab farmers) had to officially register centrally. The Fellahin did not register their land because they were poor and had no money to support this along with other reasons. Instead prominent Ottoman families registered their own names and became official owners of the land and were remote landlords living in Beirut and Istanbul, etc.
These distant absentee landlords decided to sell the land and it was the Zionists who bought it. However, despite this, Zionists only owned 5% of the land but were offered 55% which is incredibly unfair. This is why the Arabs went to war. Their land was being given away.
Ancestral claim to land 2,000 years ago doesn’t mean it is automatically yours and the Palestinians also have ancestral claim and held most of the land. I am 8% Persian from my own DNA test , going back 1,000s of years. Doesn’t mean I can rock up to Iran and claim land! So your claim that the land automatically belongs to the Jews is ridiculous.
Finally, you talk about Arabs invading in 1948, do you know what was another main reason for the invasion? In 1947, the Zionist militia carried out ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian villages, a year before the Arabs invaded. This was news to the Arab world and outraged them. They had every right to invade.
And then following 1948, The Arabs controlled Gaza and the West Bank and yet in 1967, Israel attacked Egypt and Jordan and took control of Gaza and West Bank, which are occcupied territories. So yes, my history is correct, they stole land!
