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When Christianity took over, the Christians would not allow the Jews to enter Jerusalem (since the Romans forbade it in 135 CE).They are Usurping the JEWISH heritage.the people, who they are, their heritage ...
But that is EXACTLY the point. It is not their heritage. Their identity is a completely different heritage. They are usurping someone else's heritage deliberately.
Who's heritage are Palestinians usurping? They DO have ties to THAT land - they do have their own heritage that goes back a long time - maybe not as distinctive as the Jewish heritage, but none the less they have those ties.
If you mean usurping Jewish religious sites - then I agree that is wrong. But they have a heritage in that place that is not merely descendents of "Arab invaders and migrants".
Remember them? The Jewish People, with their Jewish Nation, with a Nation called Israel which had history for 3500 years on that land, with Egypt, the Philistines, the Greeks, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Babylonians, the Romans, the Byzantine, the Muslims, the Crusaders, the Ottomans and the British?
The Jewish People, the one and ONLY Jewish People.
So what do you tell other religions - who also have a long established history involving those sites as part of their religion? One religion building on another is not exactly new. What I have a problem with in terms of Muslims is when they want to claim it for Islam only, which they can't, but they are a sacred trust for 3 religions now.
When Islam came to be and they came to the area, the second wave of Muslims allowed the Jews to enter Jerusalem.
Nowadays, Islam is intent in delegitimizing any connection that the Jewish people have to Jerusalem, to any of their holy sites, to any and all of Israel.
And some Christians are of the same mind as the Muslims, as they are helping them in this attempt to totally appropriate all of Israel, their holy sites, their culture, their history - from the Jews.
What are we supposed to tell those Christians and Muslims who are hell bent into destroying any memory of a people who basically defines the holy land, and always have?