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Helen Thomas and her muzzie friends can cram it -- the Jews and Israel have every historical reason to be in the Middle East. --Scanian

No. --Revolting cat!

Yeah, actually, they do. If for no other reason than that of prior (and continuous) residence (which is the central claim made by Muslim Arabs for their presence throughout the Middle East), Jews in the Middle East have a greater claim to virtually all that land than do the later Muslim invaders, even a good claim on large parts of Arabian Peninsula. They antedate the presence of Arabs, certainly Muslim Arabs, in almost every country. Besides, earlier genetic studies have identified ancestry with certain groups that lived in Mesopotamia (much longer ago than 300 BC). The same studies failed to identify such a relationship for the Middle Eastern Arabs (as would have been the case had they had a common ancestor with the Jews in Abraham)

When the Bedouins were still running around in the desert and selling themselves as mercenaries to both Rome and Persia for the Roman/Persian wars, the first permanent cities in the Arabian Peninsula were built by Christian and Jewish kingdoms that had been there since at least the first century AD.

Islam plus the Bedouin mercenaries, having nothing to do after a wave of Black Death hurt both Rome and Persia and ended their mercenary business, resulted in what amounted to an opportunistic disease sweeping across the Middle East, attacking weakened nations, instituting an environmental disaster that the region is still suffering from to the present day (except where it began to be reversed in the late 19th century in what would become modern day Israel), and targeting Christians and Jews for their earlier rejection of Mohammed's syncretism of a few Bedouin religious elements with major chunks of Christianity and Judaism.