The Jewish state,
Israel, came into existence more than 1300 years before the birth of Jesus Christ and 2000 years before Islam existed. The Jewish people have lived in the country for more than 3000 years and resisted Greeks, Persians, Syrians, Romans and legions of other tyrants… There never was a Palestine.
After the Romans murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews and destroyed entire cities they attempted to expunge any trace of Jews and Judaism from Israel. Thus they renamed the land after the ancient Philistines, a people who had creased to exist. Modern Arabs who call themselves Palestinians certainly have a valid claim to justice and peace but their ties to Israel are relatively recent.
Their claims to Jerusalem have even less historical justification. It was the capital of the Jewish state for 3300 years and when it was relatively briefly in Jordanian hands no Arab leader came to visit it… Muslims often have more freedom of worship in Israel than they do in many of the 22 Muslim states that currently exist, very few of which boast even basic human rights.
Nor do the Arab Muslim countries boast many Jews. More than a million Jewish citizens, most of whom had lived in these nations for centuries and in the case of Iraq and others pre-dated the rise of Islam, were forcibly removed after the resurrection of Israel in 1948…