You may also note that there was no country of Israel for a couple thousand years. Whatever you call it, those people.. those Palestinians.. who are fighting for their property, resources and culture have been in the area for about 5,000 years. Rest assured the Palestinians did not immigrate from Europe.
You will also note that the Jews left Palestine to go to Egypt when there was famine, but ultimately they couldn't get on with the Egyptians either. I have often wondered about that.
You know, that's a good point someone just made. How can you justify a Palestinian state on the basis that Chaucer and Shakespear mentioned the region of Palestine, but not justify Israel when biblical literature mentions Israel as a country far earlier? Why are Shakespeare and Chaucer so much more important than the authors of the Bible?