'According to the PLO, the "homeland of Arab Palestinian people" is Palestine, an "indivisible territorial unit" having "the boundaries it had during the British Mandate".[20]'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian
How arbitrary is that? Why not take things back to the Ottoman empire? Why not take it back to the Abbasid Caliphate? Why not take it back to the Roman empire? Oh yeah, I remember why not- because there was no such 'territorial unit' as Palestine during any of those vast periods. In the back of my Bible there are maps of Israel covering about three and a half thousand years. Israel started out small, got bigger, split in two, shrank and fluctuated about quite dramatically over that time. But the 'territorial unit' of Israel was definitely right there on the map. Palestine in the sense that the PLO define it was an 'indivisible territorial unit' between 1923 and 1947. Whoopee. As far as I'm concerned three and a half thousand years trumps twenty four years.
The way I see it is if you invade a place, then the original inhabitants take it back from you, fair result. I guess you can try invade again, just don't pretend you are the legitimate owners. Military capability is one thing, legitimacy quite another.
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