answer:The article tosses its credibility into the toilet at the very outset. Palestine has existed for better than 2000 years. The Romans created the region as an object lesson after suppressing the Jewish revolt in Judea. Judea was wiped from the maps, and the land was razed to the ground and left uninhabitable. Titus thought that razing the place might abolish pesky Judaism from the empire. It actually had the opposite effect. The Jews dispersed throughout the empire, and subsequently the world. They became ubiquitous in virtually every occupation in the vast Roman Empire. Their religion may have been despised, but as people they enjoyed the full benefits guaranteed every Roman citizen. So Palestine was around before there were Rabbis. In fact Rabbis owe their own existence to the diaspora resulting from the catastrophe of Masada. I don’t even want to bother with the silly allegation that Palestine was an empty land devoid of inhabitants. It is exactly the same argument we made here in the states regarding our own “Palestinians” As I said before, Israel“s problem is that it was incorporated 150 years too late. We had the luxury of exterminating our Palestinians. Unfortunately, Israel came to be in an era where colonization was rapidly going out of fashion. The Israelis having been denied a “final solution” regarding the Palestinians are now in the uncomfortable position of watching them multiply geometrically. It is this demographic fact that renders the country’s long term prospects beyond problematic.