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find solutions for the future. You cannot make this claim to land and expect to be taken seriously - the court records from two thousand years ago haven't been found yet.

And, in any case, recent archeology suggests that ancient Israel wasn't a homogenous, coherent state based on the imagined borders of greater Israel. Rather it was a shrinking and expanding entity with areas of strong settlement scattered about in different places at different times, going with the ebb and flow of its fortunes - just like every other state entity, primitive or otherwise, in history.

Also the Israelis originally occupied the land after fleeing Egypt, according to the texts, so the aboriginals have more claim than Israel according to your argument.