The student of history
encounters arguments for both sides, most of which transparently serve
the agendas of their writers and pass themselves off as factual while trading
largely on sentiment. But any careful reader of scripture understands that the
Jewish claim to the land of Palestine goes back a whole lot further than
May 15, 1948.
Having been unilaterally gifted the land
then called Canaan via God’s covenant with their forefather Abraham around
2000 BC, Israel has spent more time in exile from the land of promise than
actually living there.