[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Answer = whoever can control and defend it.

[LeoWindhorse]

God gave what is now Israel to the Jews
It’s theirs

[Grizzled Bear]

Answer = God

[freedom44]

For most of US generations hell-fire Christian preachers condemned Jews as the the ones who killed Christ.

Of course, now we are enlightened due to politics and this has always been a Judeo-Christian nation.

I say it belongs to the Jews. Nothing to do with being Republican, of course.

[Grizzled Bear]

3) The Jews drove those millions off their land in 1948.

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Wrong. The Arab nations called on the Arabs living in Israel to “come out so that we may cleanse the land.”

They abandoned their homes anticipating a quick return after the "war." Unfortunately for them the Arab armies were repelled by the Israelis who were using antiquated and inferior military equipment.

The food in the larders and the water in the cisterns found at the abandoned houses saved the Israelis from starvation and dehydration until they could grow/collect their own resources.

[Fabozz]

Israel consists of Jews, Muslims and Christians, of European, African and Arab descent, living together under a democratically elected government. So the answer to the question is, “The Israelis do.”

[UFC Pride K1]

God is the owner, the occupants just rent...

[JSteff]

“Who is the rightful owner of the land now occupied by Israel?”

Like the United States, those who will fight for it, deserve to own it. Those who won’t are just mostly traitors and scabs and should go elsewhere.

[ansel12]

Has anyone looked into what kind of rent the Jews could collect if they rented it out and lived in another country?

[Poincare]

A good book. Thanks for posting.

bump.

[gunnyg]

Who can hold it?
W/o Big Daddy Sucker’s help, that is!

[ncfool]

I can tell you who I think owns Israel as my Great Grandfather who lived in Missouri purchased land in Israel in 1926 from a company that was helping set up farming communities there. There was a company called AMERICAN ZION COMMONWEALTH, INC that sold land to American Jews beginning in 1926 in an area that is now called Afula, Israel. This land was purchased from its then owners who were Jordanians by American Zion Commonwealth. They did not steal the land from the Arab’s. In fact the British called the area Palestine.

The Jews did not steal from the Arab’s. Look at Israel and compare that small nation to the rest of the Arab world. Its like comparing the Island of Manhattan to the rest of the United States. Israel is a pimple compared to the land mass of the Arab world.

I have a copy of the Land contract and Deed as registered in 1926 in my posession.

[ßuddaßudd]

Isn’t posession 9/10ths of the law?

[colorado tanker]

It's a great book, very illuminating.

But, fundamentally it doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong. Hitler was right about the Sudetenland and Danzig being historically German, but it still started WWII. That's why irredentism has been discredited as a ground for war. The solution instead is partition and exchange populations, not fight wars.

This is the only area in the world where diplomats encourage irredentism, which has gotten a bad name everywhere else in the world for starting wars. It's abetted by the UN running those hideous "refugee" camps that add gasoline to the fire. Instead of encouraging Arab irredentism, the world ought to recognize the UN's 1948 decision was the only one that can lead to peace, which means partition into a Jewish and Arab state, which has effectively been done after 50+ years of Israel's existence.

[Zionist Conspirator]

HaShem owns it (along with the rest of the universe), and He has allotted it to `Am Yisra'el as their homeland and as the sacristy of the human race, where the chosen priestly Nation performs the Divine Service and the fullness of the mitzvot.

I'm sick to my stomach of the non-Theistic reasons that are given for every position in existence nowadays.

Ultimately, to believe in G-d is to be a Theocrat. And the only thing that can be said to objectors is "tough nuggies."

[RightWhale]

Just a guess: most of the land titles have Jews as owners.

[madison10]

God (Yahweh).

[roamer_1]

Who Owns Israel? The Jews or the Arabs?

Jehovah.

[Doctor Don]

God gave Joshua and the Children of Israel, fresh from the Exodus, all of the land their feet touched after crossing the Jordan River.

[Beckwith]

Who is the rightful owner of the land now occupied by Israel? Anyone interested in a fair solution to the Palestian/Israeli question has to ask this question.

This question is stupid. The Israelis do not OCCUPY Israel.

On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State was irrevocable.

And, there is no such state as Palestine.