I’ve seen & heard this a few times, that Zionists will justify their claim of ownership to Palestinian lands by pointing at the Bible for evidence that they were the original inhabitants of that land. They don’t consider it the West Bank, they call it Judea and Samaria (as seen on The Setters documentary). I haven’t read the bible and tbh don’t know that history very well of which people lived where but I’m sure the history is not as simple as this. Anyone have any good reads or insights into this history?
Re: Jews are native
According to the Bible, no. Jews are ethnically dubious slaves of Egypt, they could very well be from the levant, but God tells Moses to go to the promised land, not the homeland. Anyway they wander for 20 years before discovering Jerico and the Canaanites, God tells them they must cleanse the land in his name, so they do.
So within Judeo-Christian mythos Israelites are a genocidal group of colonizers.
Archeological history suggests that the ancient tribes of Israel did in fact originate from the levant, but fun fact, Muslim rulers allowed amd sometimes encouraged Jewish migration into their territories. Aside from a brief pause during the crusades, Jews were able to return to the levant and many in fact did. Modern DNA testing shows that modern Palestinians are descendents of the Levant and are the closest relatives of the Jewish ethnicity.
Excellent distinction about homeland vs promised land
Since they pull direct lineage from Abraham for the 12 tribes their homeland would actually be Ur, I imagine this is part of how they get Iraq in the ‘Greater Israel’ idea