Your history of the Levant is not wholly incorrect, but it's a confused jumble of facts, falsehoods, misleading factoids in the wrong place, and tendentious misinterpretations. In short, you know about as much about the history of Israel as most Americans think they do. The claim that the Jewish nation are the "rightful owners" of the land and that anyone else is an interloper who "stole" it from them is not only highly partisan, it's just plain wrong even on its own simplistic terms. The only undoubted right that the Jewish state has to the land it currently occupies is the same right that a dozen similarlyu-aggressive empires have stated before them: that is, the right of possession by force of arms. |