If the Jews are so alien to the region of Palestine, why is the land sprinkled all over with Jewish artifacts? From the Tomb of Abraham in Hebron (where the Arabs conducted a massacre), to the Tomb of Joseph (which the Arabs destroyed), to the Tomb of Rachel (which had to have an ugly fortress built around it to save it). There's Masada (with its ritual bath) and the Ein Gedi caves (where David hid from Saul). The Arabs are trying to destroy any Temple artifacts by dumping them, just as they destroyed the ancient Shalom synagogue in Jericho.
In the final analysis, it is pointless to argue the matter of Jewish rights to the land on which modern-day Isreal is built.
Todays' Jews are a genetic mixture of both ancient Hebrew tribal blood and tribal origins in several other regions in Western Asia and Eastern Europe, as well as Africa.
Broadly speaking, each of those groups represents an admixture with original Hebrew tribal blood lines - enough to make them stakeholders at the table.
The DNA connection is certainly worth mentioning, and many of today's Jews have a blood-line connection to the ancient Hebrews.
But, more significantly, it is the Spirit of Judaism, that has returned to its land of origin - genetics be damned.
That Spirit - represented by both true blood-line connections to the ancient Hebrews and by those whose ancestors converted to Judaism hundreds or thousands of years ago - is what has dreamed of The Return for millennia and it is that Spirit that has held them together as communities of belief and culture for countless generations since the Diaspora.
Both the West and the East - both Christianity and Islam - have persecuted and oppressed and suppressed Judaism for many centuries - relegating them to the margins and pushing them out of mainstream life and forcing them into enclaves and forcing them to evolve a culture of separate-ness that is more a survival tactic than anything else.
We have made them the inward-turning People that they are today, over many centuries of bad treatment that we've dished out to them.
And then comes the latest outrage - the West - as represented by Nazi Germany - slaughtering them on an industrial scale to near-extinction within their old transplanted European homes - and, not surprisingly, the survivors finally realized that they had nothing left to lose, and re-discovered their courage, and decided to fight back, in order to survive.
So, when the Great Powers gave them an opening in the old lands of their Hebrew tribal predecessors and genetic and spiritual ancestors, they took advantage of it.
Both the West and the East had a hand in making the Jews what they became - determined settlers and courageous fighters and a resurrected and re-awakened People of the Book - and they now control those old lands - and are likely to, throughout the foreseeable future.
I am told and have heard and have read, that the Jews have employed a maxim for many centuries, in which some of their songs and prayers and dogma and cultural observances have voiced words to the effect of: "Next year in Jerusalem" - meaning, of course, that the Jews have intended to return to that land, since the Romans took it from them.
That series of latter-day Roman wars against the Jews - in the first couple of centuries of the Common Era - was the better part of 2,000 years ago.
Any People who can hold themselves together for 2,000 years, with such maxims as "Next year in Jerusalem" has to be given props for endurance and faithfulness; even if they eventually evolved into a broad and richly diverse and very loosely defined overarching and nominal community of faith and culture and aspirations and livelihood.
When that broad and richly diverse community of The Faithful was nearly extinguished in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, something snapped in them.
They apparently figured that 2,000 years of persecution and oppression and slaughter was enough.
And they chose Old Palestine (formerly, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea, and Samaria) to make their stand.
They're not going anywhere... they're there to stay... and God help the fools who try to dislodge them, this time.
They've served-up a new maxim, now that they're back: "Never again".
Never again, will they allow the world - East or West - to persecute them or to slaughter them - and, I, for one, believe them - I think they mean what they say.
In the long run, you simply cannot defeat such a determined people, who have held themselves together for nearly 2,000 years, who have been dreaming of that Return for that same 2,000 years, who suffered the loss of 6,000,000 men, women and children within Living Memory, and who came back from the brink of extinction, to buy-back and take-back their old ancestral and spiritual homeland, against vast and frightful odds, winning time and again, until, now, they control the region - a state of affairs that the world at-large would have found fantastical and impossible to conceive, back in the 1940s.
And because they cannot be defeated or dislodged, and because they insist upon a country of their own, the residuals and leftovers from the collection of previous inhabitants have two basic choices: Join or Leave.
Fighting is not an option - it's been tried - over and over and over and over again - with the same result, each time.
Any Muslim-Arab in the region with an ounce of brains and two coins to rub together should be getting his people out of there. Rotting in refugee camps and refugee towns for 66-67 years is not the mark of all-round intelligence or adaptability or ambition or self-respect - and they need to change that - by packing up, leaving, and starting new lives, elsewhere, amongst their co-religionists, so that their families, too, can have the possibility of a safe and prosperous future, in a place where they're wanted.
And, if that means that the The World - the UN, etc. - has to step-up and assist with that en masse relocation of so-called 'Palestinians', well, so be it.
It's over.
The Jews have won.
The Muslims have lost.
Time to move on.
