This Land is Our Land… …Or is it?!

VAYECHI This Land is Our Land… …Or is it?! As the ever-present war in Eretz Yisroel rages on, some of us are faced with the age-old question, or, for the assertion that we stole this land from our Arab predecessors, who had lived there peacefully until the alien Jews, who came from so far as Europe or beyond, to ‘colonize’ it and expel them. There are facts, numbers, names and dates to back up the claim; so…what do you say to that? Are we indeed thieves? Did we steal the land from its rightful inhabitants? What right or claim do we have to it? Let us backtrack to when it all began, and when we say all, we mean literally all…as in everything, to the beginning of creation.