First let me clarify. I do not support the UN demand that we return the lands to the Indians after we took it from them over 200 years ago. Problem is when we say that be mindful we supported the right for Jewish refugees to create a homeland after the Romans dispersed them over 2000+ years before 1948. Thus today we say nuts to the UN but OK for Jewish refugees to make the claim against the Arabs living in British controlled Trans Jordan?
There has been a continuous Jewish presence in the Holy Land/Roman Palestine, Turkish Ottoman Empire Palestine, and British Mandate Palestine for over 3,000 years. That is the claim to the land.
There never was a Palestinian people or nation in history. There are no history books from before Yassir Arafat and Nasser created a “Palestinian people” in the 1950’s, but openly in the 1960’s.
There was no Palestinian nation, government, history, newspaper, international recognition, pottery shards, parchment papers, or anything else to show that a Palestinian people ever existed.
Most “Palestinians” came from Saudi Arabia, Transjordan, maybe Yemen, and Syria. Very few were native born to Israel, even before the 1880’s. Read what Mark Twain and Winston Churchill wrote about that region and who lived/didn’t live there.