I find the fact that Jews have held on to this belief for millennia as laudable, but it is an absolutist and maximalist position. It quite categorically states that “the land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel,” which, ipso facto, excludes the people who may be already living on the land that Zionism claims as its own. It is a position that implies that ownership of the land by other people(s), no matter how long, no matter what has been done with the land, no matter their attachment to it, is transient at best and has no historical, practical or legal validity.
