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While there is no doubt of Israelite presence in the land of modern-day Israel from 1400 BC, which gives Jews a historic relationship to the land, I would argue that the more critical argument is that Israel EXISTS, that Jewish people live there and have lived there for generations (they never truly left even after the Kitos war

"Palestinian Arabs" are genetically closely related to Jews --

White paper on "The origin of Palestinians and their genetic relatedness with other Mediterranean populations"

These "Palestinians" have Egyptian, Sryiac, Bedouin, MOabite, Ammonite and yes Jewish and Israelite ancestry

Israel has constantly said that it is willingly to live and let live -- I know personally Arab (well Arab Christians) from Israel and they have had no official discrimination from the government -- yes, there are some Orthodox Jews (notably they say "more recent arrivals") who verbally abuse, but any discrimination in jobs etc. is not tolerated by the Israeli government

the "Palestinians" need to give up that exonym, call themselves simply "Arabs" or further into sectarian groups and accept Israel's right to exist

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