Speaking at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, alongside Qatar’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Mr. Blinken said that “a deal was on the table that was virtually identical” to one that Hamas put forward on May 6.
At some point, he said, “you have to question whether they’re proceeding in good faith or not.”
What other starting point makes sense?
Jewish people had been there just as long as the Muslim population, they both have 1000+ year histories in that region.
The Ottoman empire (which controlled the region and a lot more) collapsed after WW1 due to a myriad of reasons, including losing the war. It was split up among some of the allied countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_the_Ottoman_Empire
Because that’s what happens when you lose a war.
If we’re talking about returning land that changed hands during/after WW1, there’s going to be about a thousand more border changes than just for Israel. Massive swaths of Europe changed hands over that period.
Specifically, if you want Israel to hand land back, does that mean that Finland needs to be handed back to the Russians? They owned the country (and a bunch of other countries) prior to the end of WW1.