The myth of two different peoples, both indigenous to the land, long competing for the same piece of territory, is just that: a myth
Lay that aside.
The people who call themselves Palestinians did not do so until after the Six Day War in 1967. I was in the room at the press conference in 1977 when Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat and Israel’s prime minister went back and forth. Sadat referred to “the Palestinians.” Begin pointedly retorted, “the Arabs of the Land of Israel.”
Lay that aside.
Some say that the Arabs in the Land of Israel were expelled during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. Others say that their leaders told them to leave, for in a short time they would return to a land empty of Jews. Some say it was a bit of both.
Lay that aside.
Some Arab politicians during the British Mandate period (1922–1948) sold land to Jews even as they publicly agitated against land acquisition by Jews.
Lay that aside.
Lay aside all the arguments about whom the Land of Israel belongs to.
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