With UAE deal, Israel opens tentative new chapter with Gulf Arabs

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Disagree. The ‘ancestral home’ argument carries substantial weight. That particular bit of the Middle East belonged to Jews for at least two millennia before Mohammed was a gleam in the milkman’s eye.

The trouble isn’t that they’re there, it that they don’t feel that other people with a legitimate  claim merit equal consideration.

Boru

Palestine belongs to its native Palestinian people, the land belongs to these natives, not to invaders.

The earliest residents of Palestine were the Canaanites, the cultural ancestors of the Israelites. 

In other words, the ‘native Palestinian people’ you refer to are Israelites, or (if you prefer) Jews. 

This isn’t to say that modern Palestinians didn’t get horrible treatment and a raw deal - they absolutely did.  It’s a shonda the way they’ve been treated.

Boru