re: Israelis partying as a Palestinian building burns

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You have no clue what you're talking about. Look at a map prior to 1948 and you'll see that area was called the British Mandate for Palestine. Before that, the Ottoman Turks referred to the area as Palestine. And censuses taken after World War I indicated that there were almost 600,000 Palestinian Muslims in what is now Israel compared to less than 85,000 Jews. Most Jews now living in Israel have been there for less than a century.

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Not only that, the word first appeared in Herodotus as a reference to the region. Broadly, the use of the term Syria Palestine continued for a long time through various historical texts.

This is aside from the DNA evidence, which shows remarkably little movement of the inhabitants of the region, as DNA evidence links them to Neolithic inhabitants, which includes a subset of Jewish people too.