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The whole claim to having a "right" to exist on conquered land is kind of a weird one, philosophically.
If it's legitimate to acquire territory through conquest, then there's no debate that the land belongs to the Palestinians. But, consequently, if conquest is a legitimate means of acquiring territory, then the Israelis are not doing anything different in acquiring the land than the Muslims did when they first conquered Palestine and established their colony there.
On the other hand, maybe conquest is not a legitimate means of acquiring territory and the Israelis are in the wrong for trying to gain land that way. But if that's true, that conquest is not a legitimate means of acquiring territory, then the Muslim conquerors who took Palestine in the first place were also in the wrong and their claim to the territory is similarly illegitimate.
Wow you are missing a lot of history, over a dozen civilizations had that land before the Palestinians. Why does it not belong to them?
Before the Palestinians? Who do you think Palestinians are? Do you think they're a new group of people that took the land recently? Different groups of come into conquer the region but the residents were still them. That's how migration waves work. Especially in this region considering mostly it's not people settling in the area it's just people ruling the area from afar. Hell they are a Semitic people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine
None of your points are true, maybe read some history first.
You honestly think the residents of the area were entirely purged every time a new power conquered the land?