re: True or False: The Jews/Israelites were the first inhabitants of Palestine

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The vast majority of Jews currently in Israel have been there less than a century. I always laugh at the American Zionists who claim Palestinians aren't a true people but somehow think folks who, prior to 1948, spent centuries in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Habsburg lands in Central Europe have some inherent right to lands in the Middle East.

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It kind of is what it is though. I'm not saying it's a great situation but you could make a lot of parallel arguments to the Europeans settling in the Americas. And also the local Palestinian bourgeoisie kind of sold out the lower class natives by continuing to sell their land to European Jewish settlers.