u/Dangerous_Spend7024

Jewish ancestral ties to the land

How sharing some genetics and religious beliefs with a group of people that existed two thousands of years ago gives an individual today an inherent right to land?
And at what point do we stop going back in the past to claim land? I find it silly tbh.

If you ask about how I view, I'd say that one's entitlement to land is something that's established through consensual trade. If I own land I own it because the previous owner gave it to me willingly. And I do not account for what happened in medieval and ancient times, people back then did not have international law, and things were chaotic and brutal (barbaric). With this logic for example, and despite the fact that Muslims were massacred out of Iberian peninsula in medieval times, they don't have a right to the land even if they are descendants of people who originated from there.
And with this logic, Jews do not inherently have a right to live in Palestine just because they are Jews.
The following is a bit of a tangent but I really wanna read a response to it, Israelis often suffer from skin cancer as a result of living under the sun of the region, and allergies to olive which is iconic to it and Israel profits from exporting it. How can you claim ties to a region that you are more out of place in than they people you deny being native?

Anyway, is this unfair or illogical in anyway? I wish people don't twist my words or approach me angrily, I'm obviously not saying Jews do not have the right to live wherever they want, an Israeli Jew who was born in the region and contributed to it is of course deserving to stay, by that they aren't really outsiders although they are descendants of outsiders.

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u/Dangerous_Spend7024 — 11 days ago