Well, a far more legitimate claim than that of a bunch of Europeans. You people haven't much education and it certainly shows, but then you have to an ignorant nitwit to support Israel. However, please memorize this, the Ottomans did not conquer Palestine until 1517. The Christians held Palestine for about hundred years between 1099 to 1187. They Christians held on to Acre for another 100 years but it was a small holding. So whether Christian or Muslim, Arab or Turk. It wasn't Jewish for sure.
Seems that you have not learnt your history little boy, the so called "Europeans" have a genetic marker that puts then in the lands of Judea and Samaria. The so called Palestinians that have been tested show a distinct lack of any such marker and instead show a very recent lineage outside of Palestine. The Jews whether Ashkenazi or Sephardic have lived in Palestine for 5000 years the muslims barely manage 3 generations
That's all bullshit. The Palestinians, Christian and Muslim have genetic markers that places them closer to Palestine than any Jew. In fact, the Palestinians.
"RAEL: 86% of Palestinians are of JewÂ’s origins according to genetic evidence. Israeli need to know they are committing siblicide.
“Palestinians are direct descendants of the tribes of Israel, they are as Jewish as any Jew in the world” a study by Tsvi Misinai confirms through genetic, immunological, linguistic, geographical, anthropological and historical studies."
RAEL: 86% of Palestinians are of Jew?s origins according to genetic evidence. Israeli need to know they are committing siblicide. - Raelian Press Site
I am a white European and I have a genetic marker that places me in Africa. It doesn't mean that me and my buddies can go to South Africa throw out the locals and take over the diamond minds. What a frigging idiot you are.
So irrelevant. Ethnic Arabs, are descendents of Ishmael, which was fathered by Abraham. Genetic markers would trace them back to a similar origin as Isaac.
Israel, is the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, and always has been.
Genesis 25:17-18
"Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them. "
As near as we can tell from archaeology, Havilah is modern day Kuwait. Shur is a bit more ambiguous, but the limited evidence suggests just south of the the southern tip of Jordan, or the North West coast line of Saudi Arabia.
Point being, the land known as Saudi Arabia, was, and is, the homeland of the Ishmaelite people.
Prior to the violent conquest of invading Arabs under the banner of Islam, there were no known 'palestine' Arab people living in Israel.
And even then, the *ONLY* reason they could move into Israel and settle in the land, is because the Sasanian Empire, Persians (modern Iran), after the several revolts of the 500s, wiped out the local population by expelling them, enslaving them, and flat out slaughtering them.
At the peak, there were likely between 3 to 5 million Jews living in the land of Israel, before the systematic decimation of Jews started.
Yet between 700 AD to 1850s, the total number of Arabs and non-Jews living Israel was under 300,000. That's less than the number of Israelites that came from Egypt during the Exodus, which was up near 600,000.
Even the most optimistic approach, could never really suggest that the land of historic Israel was ever really occupied by Arabs.
Jerusalem itself, makes the claim of Arab domination, and religious claim, spurious. You would have to go all the way back to the 1500s, to even find a time where Jerusalem had a Muslim majority. By the 1800s, Jews were the majority. In 1920, Jews had a population of 30,000, while all others including Muslims, were only 20,000.
Even while controlled by Islamic Ottoman Empire, the city of Jerusalem, was Jewish by majority, and it was not a 'holy Islamic' site of pilgrimage.
And BTW... I love my Muslim friends, but guys I have to be honest, your claim to Jerusalem is fruity. The Qur'an 17:1, Muhammad visiting the "Sacred Mosque to the remote mosque", can no possibly be talking about Jerusalem, or the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Why? Because Muhammad died in 632 AD. There was no Mosque in Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was not built, and didn't open until 705. In fact, there were no Muslims in Jerusalem at all until 637, 5 years after Muhammad died.
The bottom line is this.....
There is no other group, no other ethic people, no other religious order, no other language, no other culture, that has been in the land of Israel continuously for over 3,000 years..... Except the Jewish people, the Jewish religion, the Jewish Language, the Jewish Culture.
No one has been there continuously but the Jews.
People act like the Jews magically showed up in 1947. They didn't 'show up' in 1947. They never LEFT. They have ALWAYS been there. The only difference is, MORE came to Israel, because other people were killing, slaughtering, and expelling them from other lands, forcing them to Israel.
Many of the 'illegal settlements', that people are screaming about, are settlements that have existed since before the 1800s.
They were simply small un-noticed Jewish settlements. Then all these immigrants being forced out of other countries, showed up to existing settlements, and now people are screaming about it.
Kiryat Arba for example, was 'founded' in 1968, in the "west bank" area of Hebron. What a lot of people don't know, is that this settlement was "founded" in the spot of the 1929 Hebron massacre, in which 67 Jews were slaughtered, half of which were college students.
Wait wait... so you are saying there were Jews living there
before the settlement existed?
Before even modern Israel existed?
YES! Yes you twits! The Jews never left! They have been there CONTINUOUSLY for 3,000 YEARS!
This really isn't that hard to figure out.