Arabs refer to peoples of Arab ancestry who speak Arabic, not simply Saudis. So Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon & others are all Arab states—as the ancestors of the Arab populations there conquered and colonized all these lands in the 7th & 8th Centuries.
Before the Jews started BUYING (not stealing) land in what is now Israel in the late 19th C., what was part of the Ottoman (not Arabs) Empire, it was a wasteland, with very few living there. When the Jews started to develop things, Arabs started coming in to Palestine for work. The few who had lived there for generations were mostly renters—from wealthy Arab land owners. Before 1947 nearly all the Jewish land there was PURCHASED. Since in ‘47 Palestine was British land—won when the Ottoman Empire collapsed in WWI, and they, through the UN, gave the land for a Jewish state. Of course the surrounding Arab states went to war with Israel...and lost, as they did again in ‘67, ‘73, & other times since. The Arabs on the losing side (150,000 sided with Israel) eventually took up the name “Palestinians” and took on permanent “refugee” status (for 77 years now...), continually denying Israel’s right to exist. They’ve been offered a 2 state solution from all throughout the 77 years of Israel’s existence, always to deny it-—as their leaders swore to annihilate Israel and the Jews living there.
SO NO, people who support terrorists and the annihilation of Israel DO NOT “have as much right to the land as Israel does.” All the Arab nations around Israel had their boundaries set up by the British in the ‘20s & ‘30s, but it took until after WWII for Israel’s boundaries to be set—by the UN this time, in ‘47. So the borders of all the other various nations around are no more, or less, legitimate—than those of Israel.
However, those who’ve refused, for generations, to make peace with the Jews...do not have a “right” to Israeli land, period. (and I couldn’t care less that Arabs & Jews are all “Semites” as that’s not a recognized people group today.) Palestinian Arabs however are mercilessly anti-Jewish, however, and that’s a fact. They would butcher every man, woman and child in Israel, given the chance—as Oct. 7 illustrated. Israeli Jews are NOT anti-Arab....and hundreds of thousands of Arabs live in Israel today. Israel has not tried to take land from other surrounding Arab countries—and in fact gave land back to Egypt...after they took it when Egypt attacked them in the 6-day War.
As the saying goes, if the Arabs fighting Israel now...would lay down their arms, killing would cease and peace would reign in the area. If, however the Jews were to lay down their arms—we’d have the biggest genocide the world has ever seen.
