If continuous presence in a land doesn't define a people's right to exist as a nation, you know what does?
The ability to create and defend borders.
Israel has that. Israel was invaded on the day it declared independence on May 14th, 1948. Invaded by 9 Arab nations and armies[0], Israel not only successfully defended itself and won the war, it even gained territory from the aggressors.
Israel has a right to exist because its people have had a continuous presence in that land going back longer than the British have been in London, longer than the French have been in Paris.
Israel has a right to exist because it defends its people and its borders and has the approval of the United Nations, UN Resolution 181.
The only people who deny this right of Jews to return to their native homeland? Bonafide neo-Nazis, Islamic fundamentalists, KKK members, and other antisemites.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War
The ability to create and defend borders.
Israel has that. Israel was invaded on the day it declared independence on May 14th, 1948. Invaded by 9 Arab nations and armies[0], Israel not only successfully defended itself and won the war, it even gained territory from the aggressors.
Israel has a right to exist because its people have had a continuous presence in that land going back longer than the British have been in London, longer than the French have been in Paris.
Israel has a right to exist because it defends its people and its borders and has the approval of the United Nations, UN Resolution 181.
The only people who deny this right of Jews to return to their native homeland? Bonafide neo-Nazis, Islamic fundamentalists, KKK members, and other antisemites.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War