In other words, the land was not entirely desolate and empty. Some Arabs lived in towns, even.
Maybe they did not call themselves Palestinian, but so what?
So did Jews and Christians including a substantial Armenian population which claims nearly 2,000 continuous years there. So, who wants to award it to the Armenians?
The original Hebrew tribes were probably closer to the Bedouins than any of the other groups so maybe all the land should be awarded to the Jews and Bedouins? Of course, that would be the animist bedouins who were earlier inhabitants.
Maybe the Greeks have a legal claim since they were thrown out by the Maccabean Jews and, don't forget the Babylonians, Persians and Romans whose descendants, in one form or another, probably still live there along side some relatives of the Phonecians.
But, then again, I'm sure that there is still some Crusader blood flowing in the land so possibly the French have the real claim.
Ofcourse, the early Zionists came mostly from Poland the Russia so we could award the whole thing to those two countries.
And, then, there were the.... |
