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Your editorial comment aside, would you like to refute the basic assertion that before the Zionist return of the Jews to what is now Israel, the land was virtually empty? The fact seems to be that as the Jews rebuilt the land, built a society with an economy, cultivated the land, built cities, Arabs finally took interest in "Palestine," and moved in to benefit from the wealth that the Jews were creating.

The point of the post is that "Palestinians" are not indigeous to the land. Would you like to refute that?

The Jews are not indigenious to the land either.

Since the first Israeli-Arab war in 1948 the Palestinians have experienced several waves of exile and lived in various host countries. To the refugees of 1948 must be added the hundreds of thousands displaced in 1967. These refugees together constitute the Palestinian diaspora. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the total number of Palestinians throughout the world in 1998 was 8,041,569, made up as follows:

Israel : 910,510
Gaza : 1,039,580
West Bank :1,857,872
Jordan : 2,328,308
Lebanon : 430,183
Syria : 465,662
Egypt : 48,784
Saudi Arabia : 274,762
Kuwait : 37,696
Other Gulf states :105,578
Iraq, Libya : 74,284
Other Arab states : 5,544
The Americas : 203,558
Other : 259,248
Total : 8,041,569
http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/focus/mideast/question-3-3-1-en

Seems it is easy to be a democracy when you have made sure your the majority.