Because their descendants have lived in the area for 2000 years
Because it is their land, their home.
Neither the Palestinians or Jews deserve the land of israel if they keep on fighting. I think that they should simply split up the land equally into two : problem solved!!!!! Then there will be two countries : Palestine and Israel and so they can live in peace.
During the Roman Rule of the Jewish land Judea, about 2000 years ago, the Romans changed the name of the land to Palestine. So the Jews living there were the Palestinians. Only a century ago, millions of Muslims from the Arab countries moved to Palestine, and called themselves the Palestinians because they wanted to show the world that it's their land, which it isn't.
After Israel took over the PALESTINIAN land the Israelis built a wall around the Palestinians. Then the Israel people started to kill and throw tear gas on the remaining people of Palestine. Although some Palestinians are all over the globe the true history still lives on! <3 Palestine !
Historic Palestine or the Land of Israel. (Both are regional names for the same piece of land, roughly.)
The Palestinians think of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Territories as the theft of land and a continued humiliation of their people.
Jewish people they have always held this land and they have there kings buried thee i think that claims it as there land and God cave them the land so it belongs to them and noone else and everyone one else who is on the land will be destoyed by God in the end
Palestinians (Philistines in the Bible) lived in Palestine. Then many Jewish people came and took the farms, cities, and land, and called it Israel. The Palestinians want the invaders to go away. The Israelis want to stay and to expand their small country.
The fighting occurs primarily in the Gaza Strip, but there are still riots and low-level violence in the West Bank. However, many Palestinians still claim that the entire State of Israel belongs to the Palestinians, so the conflict is still over the entire former Mandate of Palestine.
because it "was" and still is there land NOT the jews land
Palestinians believe that the land of palestine belongs to them because their ancestors lived in the area, building cities and cultivating the land for hundreds and hundreds of years. They believe that they own this land just as anyone else who buys something or builds something owns the fruit of their labor. Because most Arabs are not Jewish, they do not accept the promise from God to his 'chosen people' as a legitimate reason for their property to be taken away.
Palestinians believe that the land of palestine belongs to them because their ancestors lived in the area, building cities and cultivating the land for hundreds and hundreds of years. They believe that they own this land just as anyone else who buys something or builds something owns the fruit of their labor. Because most Arabs are not Jewish, they do not accept the promise from God to his 'chosen people' as a legitimate reason for their property to be taken away.