I’m surprised they stopped just short of parroting the Khazar Canard, which the “progressives” love to trot out as their “proof” that the Jews have no intrinsic, historical right to the land.
I call that the Khazar lie myself. Funny how when that is raised, nobody can find the “true” Jews to give them their land back anyhow and insist that the Arabs get the land (ostensibly), or pile on with the “international city” thing with respect to Jerusalem.
European Jews are genetically related to Samaritans and Arabs. Middle Eastern Jews are even more genetically related.
Besides - ignore the ‘2000 years ago we were owners of this land’ and look at three other items that define why the Israelis own that land
1. by right of purchase - Jews performed aliyah in the 1800s during the rise of nationalism in europe when different people saw they “owned” some land. Jews moved to the Ottoman province and legally bought the land, settled, farmed
2. by right of development - the land before the Jews was fallow and a dustbowl, lightly populated. Jews brought technology and made the desert bloom. To be fair - the “arabs” didn’t develop this because of Islam - Islam expanded under goat herders who destroyed the land and the irrigation networks (just as they did in north africa) because they didn’t know anything about these
3. by right of conquest - the Israelies didn’t start the 1948, 1967 or 1971 wars - the neighbouring lands did and those neighbouring lands LOST.
No need to go into the religious or historical arguments - by these three above arguments the present day Israelites have the right to these lands.