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Source: https://www.camera.org/article/the-washington-post-and-vox-award-land-to-the-palestinians/
The West Bank Is Not "Palestinian Land"
(CAMERA) Sean Durns - "Who can challenge the rights of the Jews in Palestine?" Yusuf al-Khalidi wrote to the chief rabbi of France on March 1, 1899. "Historically it really is your country." A sovereign Palestinian Arab state has never existed. Rather, the status of the territory is, at best, disputed. The co-authors of UN Security Council Resolution 242 (1967), U.S. Undersecretary of State Eugene Rostow, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Arthur Goldberg, and British Ambassador Lord Caradon made clear that Jews and Arabs both had claims in the territories. The Jewish presence in the Land of Israel predates that of the Arab and Islamic conquests in the 7th century - by thousands of years. In Jerusalem, Jews have constituted a majority of the inhabitants since the 1840s. The writer is a Senior Research Analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA).