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The tricky thing is that if you go back as far as the Israelis want to, there's no difference between them and the Palestinians. They're both descendant groups of the people that were in the area at the time, as well as people those groups encountered later on.
My own hot take is that it's a small chunk of rock and dirt that predates all of us, and maybe we should just share it fairly equally on a person-by-person basis. Pretty much all the Israelis would object to that, though, and some of the Palestinians. So, the blood flows.
Not a hot take at all, my friend. 100% agree with this. You will have white Americans claiming it's their land and refuse entry to Mexicans, but if you go back couple of hundreds years ago, they were the "aliens"/immigrants. Same in Australia or Canada and many other places. No matter who claims the land right now, you can go back in history and find out they are not the actual natives.
Except maybe the Khoi-San of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. For whatever reason nobody is talking about putting them in charge.
Sadly, most of the population here and worldwide either doesn't understand this take or disagrees with it, so it kind of is hot.