‘PALESTINE’ IS ON HISTORY’S WRONG SIDE

I was going to wait and see but such a grossly lying title of a post as ‘Be Human; Support Palestine’ tipped me over the edge!
I will start here with some fairly recent historical background.
1695: An Ottoman census shows Hebrew surnames still make up a majority of Jerusalem residents and a large chunk of what some still call ‘Judea’.
What happens next? Here it comes.
1834: A local uprising is put down in typical Ottoman fashion. I doubt whether you want the details of what that means. In any case, the land is so depopulated that the Ottomans offer free land to any Ottoman veteran who will come and settle in present-day Israel/Palestine, be they Turkish, Macedonian, Epirean, Egyptian or Bosnian.
1868: Mark Twain publishes Innocents Abroad and relates how sadly depopulated and dessicated the Holy Land was then. He has no reason to lie.
1882: Even before modern Zionism began, Jews start returning to the Land of Israel.
1894: Modern Zionism begins when Theodor Herzl, reporting from Paris for a Viennese newspaper, hears a mob yelling, “A mort les Juifs!” (Death to the Jews!) in the wake of the trumped-up conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason and his mind starts to mull over the ramifications.
Between 1900 and 1920 was when Jews started returning to their ancient land in a more organized fashion. They bought all the land on which they settled. Usually they paid twice” first with money and then with sweat and blood. They decided they would work the land themselves rather than be overseers. Still, they brought new life to a moribund land and, as they did, Arabs…