Are you ok @SometimesCalmPerson? Because you don’t seem like you’re ok.
Firstly, a couple of questions for you. What language do Israelis speak, and where does it come from? (Answer: Hebrew - Ancient Israel. Hebrew has its origins in the Semantic language group known as the Canaanite group, which has its written records dating back to the second millennium BCE).
Now answer this question: what language do Palestinians speak and where does that language come from? (Answer: Arabic - this language can can be traced back to the Arabian Peninsula, where it developed over time from a group of dialects spoken by the nomadic Bedouin tribes - the earliest form of Arabic, known as Old Arabic, dates back to the 4th century CE).
The connection between the Jewish people and Israel goes back long before the birth of either Christianity or Islam. Jews created a society there in the days of Joshua, a kingdom in the days of Saul, and a nation with Jerusalem as its capital in the days of King David - more than 3,000 years ago.
Jews are the only people who ever created a nation state there. At all other times in the past 3,000 years it was merely an administrative district in an empire whose centre was elsewhere: the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Alexandrian, Roman and Byzantine empires, the Crusaders of the Holy Roman Empire, the various Muslim empires such as the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Mamluks and Ottomans - and finally, the British. Jews are the only people who have maintained a continuous presence in the land. They are its indigenous, original inhabitants.
Let’s compare and contrast this to the other side shall we? Remember, at the end of the day Palestinians are Arabs - there is no such thing as a separate Palestinian people, no matter what dodgy, ahistorical nonsense some TikTok accounts spew out. The Gazans are mainly Egyptian (their surnames bear this out). The Israeli Arabs that decided to stay after 1947 had most likely lived on the land for centuries. And the ones who now live under Palestinian Authority rule in the West Bank are made up of peoples who came to the land from all over the Ottoman Empire. Again, you can tell by the surnames. You can also tell by studying Ottoman and British Mandate census accounts and records. It’s all verifiable.
And here’s the thing, because the British Mandate was so well run and there was a good chance a person could get employment, there was lots of legal and illegal immigration from Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. Under the Ottomans, the population of Palestine generally was small. Jerusalem, for obvious reasons, was an exception. Palestine as a nation and ‘population’ is relatively recent construct. They didn’t even start calling themselves Palestinians until the mid-ish 1960s, it was the Soviet Union that even gave them the idea (because the Soviet Union was rabidly antisemitic and did everything it could to stoke tensions in the region). They are Arabs.
Also, black Israeli Jews, of which there are many, will be shocked to find out that they are in fact white (Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews make the Jewish world very ethically and racially diverse).
I support the right of Palestinians to a state of their own, and the right of Palestinian children and youth to a future of dignity and hope. But don’t start with this “deeper roots in the land” discussion, because history doesn’t lie, antisemites do.