Trigger words: moral right
Indicator sentences: Could you please explain what you mean by moral right?
Negotiation parts: Thousands of Jews lived in Israel since the original Jewish nation was sent into the diaspora of 70 AD. The creation of the state in 1948 was not the start of the Jewish nation, but the return of the Jewish nation to their land. In that time, no other country has ever laid claim to it in a nationalist sense. It's only once the Jewish nation returned home that suddenly there is interest in it. There's been an unbroken Jewish presence in that land for 3000 years. Thats a significant moral right, if you ask me. This isn't my favorite example, but WWII illustrates why the nation of Israel and the Jewish people needs its own land. The historical home of the Jewish people (the Kingdom of Judea and Israel) is in Jerusalem, Safed, Hebron, Beersheva and the surrounding area. Many of the Palestians have Jewish roots 1000's of years in the past ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people#cite_note-23 ). There is strong archeological evidence for the continued inhabitance of the land by Jews and the continued desire to return after the exile. It is their home by birthright as much as the Palestinians some of whom were jews before conversion. I don't feel that you can say that it is as much their home by birthright (because they have historical ties to it 1000 years in the past) as it is the Palestinians who were born there, whose ancestors were born there for the last several hundred years.