Brief historical background to the Jewish people's connection to their homeland:
Using “Palestine” to negate the name Israel for the land is misleading, as there has never been any indigenous "Palestine" / Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel. The only valid name for the land belongs to the Jewish indigenous sovereign states before the Re-establishment of Israel in 1948: “Israel” or “Judah”.
The Jewish people (“Jew”=citizen of “Judah” - Judaism is both an ethnicity as well as a religion) are the indigenous people of their ancestral homeland of Israel with unbroken presence there since Biblical times:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral homeland. Internationally-recognised history shows that the last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel (Roman-imposed name “Palestine”), prior to the RE-establishment of Israel in 1948, was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom of Judah. It included (what is now known as) the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights. Capital (what is now East) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Hasmonean_kingdom.jpg
This post was edited by Robert at July 31, 2021 8:19 AM MDT