> Jewish people occupied the entire region long before Islam existed or Islamic Arabs took it over? And other peoples occupied the region long before judaism w

> Jewish people occupied the entire region long before Islam existed or Islamic Arabs took it over? And other peoples occupied the region long before judaism was an idea in some shepherd's preaching. The problem with this logic is, where do you stop. At what point do you declare "these people were the special first ones and anyone before them doesn't matter"? Much less the mental gymnastics required to believe that which human owned which land in 500bce is relevant to how to deal with things in 2025. It's not that we should ignore history, it's absolutely worth understanding how we got to the current position, but we shouldn't privilege it over the lives and wellbeing of actual people living right now.