Shusha
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OK, collectively speaking, how many of those European settlers have ancestors from that territory?
The Jewish people are a people collectively. They ALL have ancestors from that territory. Else they would not BE Jewish. Its the act of being Jewish -- culturally, ethnically, religiously -- that MAKES them part of the Jewish collective.
Its not a matter of having the correct paperwork from 345 or 702 or 1121 or 1725 or 1814 or 1949. There is no way to have some sort of documentation from a diaspora which began so many thousands of years ago. Its a matter of self-identifying and being accepted by that People. Its a matter of being connected to the Jewish culture which arose on that territory.
It is the same measurement which is used to define indigenous peoples all over the world. What is WRONG with measuring it in that way?