certainly the Arabs have a much greater
claim because they've had a longer
history of inhabitants of actual
residents in Palestine than the Jews did
if you look at the history of Palestine
there's been some quite interesting work
done by biblical
archaeologists you'll see that the
period of actual Israelite as it was
called in the Old Testament dominance in
Palestine amounts to about 200 to 250
years but there were moabites there were
jebusites there were Canaanites there
were Philistines there were many many
other people in Palestine at the time
and before and after and to isolate one
of them and say that's the real owner of
the land I mean that is that is
fundamentalism because the only way you
can back it up is say well God gave it
to us yes but I mean Christians think
that God gave it to them and Muslims
think that God gave it to them I mean
that's not a rational argument nobody
has a claim that overrides all the
others and entitles that person with
that so-called claim to drive people out
I mean that's the
point I mean Jews have a claim in I've
never denied that of course they do but
is it a claim that that can tell a
Palestinian well you've got to leave
this house because I I mean I got it
3,000 years ago I mean it's true I come
from Poland or from Brooklyn but I have
a bigger right to this house than you do
so get out that's I I I I I'm sorry I
disagree with that with that kind of
logic uh