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Sen. Lindsey Graham. Screengrab via Youtube
While we Jews hold the claim to the land of Israel, and more, going back some 3600 years, that 3600 year old claim is, by itself, not legitimate in the eyes of many in the modern world, not all of whom should be fairly described as antisemites. Indeed, we have legal, historical, religious, Biblical and indigenous rights, but the only set of claims which might hold much merit in the modern world, likely to both many of our friends and all of our enemies, are those rights as defined in modern international agreements which are still binding, and which nearly everyone prefers to ignore. This is why, while our ancestral rights, ie those based on history or the Bible, should be recalled to have been from Dan to Beersheba, as the saying goes, but this is beyond the lands to which we have legal rights today. Indeed, our ancestral rights also go from the Sinai to what is today Jordan, but again, this is beyond what our modern legal mandate allows us to control.
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Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
