The same way that the United States did, and to this day, is still making reparations to the displaced peoples.

As Ogie, we have recorded history of many Jews in the area hundreds of years prior to Islam even existing. Why did they lose their claim?

Also, I have clearly stated there is nothing pre 1960 that differentiates a Palestinian Arab from any other Arab living on the levant. They are not a distinctive ethnicity when compared to their Arab brothers. Tell me what makes a Syrian Arab in 1948 different from a so-called Palestinian Arab in 1948.

They "left".

As I've already stated, more Jews were displaced by Arabs post 1948 than Arabs displaced by Jews. Jews took care of their own whereas the Arabs abused their own.

That's the history few want to touch, but it is the honest assessment of what happened.

Also, I have clearly stated there is nothing pre 1960 that differentiates a Palestinian Arab from any other Arab living on the levant. They are not a distinctive ethnicity when compared to their Arab brothers. Tell me what makes a Syrian Arab in 1948 different from a so-called Palestinian Arab in 1948.

Are you going to try to blame Islam 600 years before it was came into existence?

I'm simply saying they probably would have preferred to stay. I don't think they chose to be without a country for 2,000 years.

Ogie you're good but not that good. You are lobbying against the ethnic legitimacy of Palestinians while simultaneously arguing the legitimacy of a religious group. You are conflating Jewish people with beingpart of an ethnic group. You are saying that Palestine has never been a state. Jews have never been either an ethnicity or part of a nationality. Jews are part of a religious group. As such how can it be argued that they have a right to claim land as part of an ancestral heritage? Can it be proven that the MANY people who descended upon Israel have a direct link to that part of the world? Or are they simply adherents to the religion? I think we both know the answer to that don't we?

They didn't. They migrated to the quickly developing Europe, with more fertile lands and temperate climates.

So why did so many return?

They didn't. They migrated to the quickly developing Europe, with more fertile lands and temperate climates.

Your Jewish persecution begins with Romans, Christians and Pagans in Europe

A majority of Europeans didn't want them there? I'm not an expert on Jewish persecution in the early centuries and why...just that it had existed long before Hitler. And that Islam wasn't involved.

How is the heritage of Ivanka Trump common with that of any of the descendants of the Holocaust. If you have an ability to "convert" in order to join then how is it that you have dinstinctive characteristics?

1: those who left for Europe were exiled by the Romans (often in slavery), yet they all originate from Israel. That's why it's called the diaspora.

2: even after the diaspora, Jews lived in major cities in Israel and lived there uninterrupted since the return from the Babylonian exile in 538 BCE. They lived in J'lem, Hebron, Beersheva, Tiverya, and Tzfat primarily.

In fact, an 1860 census of Jerusalem by the British Consulate (this is 20+ years before Zionism) showed the Jews to be a majority of the population in Jerusalem.

Della Pergola is a specialist on the demography of world Jewry and has published numerous books and over two hundred papers on historical demography, the family, international migration, Jewish identification, and population projections in the Diaspora and in Israel.

Islam wasn't involved but they certainly have taken a prominent role.

The major point here is that it doesn't make sense to say "Palestinians were the majority at this certain time" when the Jews still existed there too and would have existed in far larger numbers had they been given the choice.

They were given a choice. Much of Palestine was uninhabited except for a few thousand Christians and Arabs for over one thousand years. The Jews were being persecuted in Europe and could have gone back to the Palestinian region at any time. They chose not to.

the area was controlled by the Ottoman Empire for like 500 years. How stupid are you?

Well, then the Palestinians have a choice to leave now and it's all good!

I can't wait to see the State of Palestine become a (snort) flourishing democracy that (snort) respects the rights of women, LGBT people, Jewish people, and atheists, and definitely doesn't wage war on its neighbor so it can claim all the land from the river to the sea. O praisèd be the noble "Palestinian"!

We're talking way before the Ottomon Empire. Get your centuries straight.

I thought Maimonides lived in Spain and Morocco.

and before that it was the Byzantines... before them the Romans... before that it was Maccabees.

The point is... which you and LTG ignored (either on purpose or through lack of reading comprehension) is that there has been a continuous and unbroken Jewish presence in all of the major cities of Israel going back to the end of the Babylonian revolt over 2,500 years ago in 538 BCE.

The Jews never left. Many of them were scattered against their will across the lands held by the Roman Empire after the sacking of Jerusalem in 67 CE, but even after the diaspora, Jews remained in the land.

It was during this era that one of the greatest Jewish scholars, The Rambam, wrote his works as a Jew living in Israel in the 11th century. The Kabbalists of in Tzfat did their writings in the 16th Century. I could go on forever here, but the fact is, the Jews never left Israel. They may have at times lost power and been subservient to others, but they never as a people did leave.

I also have made the rather correct argument that Judaism is a religion.

Well, that isn't an argument: Judaism is the traditional religion of the Jewish people. But to say there is no shared ethnic history among the Jewish people is in not-even-wrong territory.