For over 60 years, there has been a bitter dispute over the unwillingness of most Muslims and Arabs to accept the legitimacy and permanence of Israel as "the” Jewish State, i.e. as the political expression of the self-determination of the Jewish People in a part of its ancestral homeland. Extending from the Mediterranean Sea to territory east of the Jordan River, the larger ancestral homeland of the Jewish People was for many centuries known to Jews as "the land of Israel," in Hebrew, Eretz Yisrael. To Christians, this same Eretz Yisrael was "the Holy Land" or "Palestine" − imagined on pre-20th-century maps as regularly including lands to the east of the Jordan River.
Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have denied that the Jews are a “People,” within the context of the modern political and legal doctrines of aboriginal rights and the self-determination of Peoples. However, there is an enormous body of archaeological and other historical evidence demonstrating that the Jewish People, like the Greek People or the Han Chinese People, is among the oldest of the world's Peoples. In fact, the early modern European Peoples probably learned from the biblical example of the Jewish People what it means to be “a People in history.”
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