@maxdancona,
maxdancona wrote:Factually, the Jews and the Palestinians have common ancestors. Genetic studies have proven this.
Yes. Both were part of the same Bronze Age Canaanite civilization.
maxdancona wrote:They are both the indigenous population of the West Bank and Israel because they are genetically the same race.
Not quite. After the global collapse of Bronze Age civilizations, smaller Iron Age cultures arose from the ashes of Canaanite culture.
The Iron Age culture in the West Bank area was the Israelites. But DNA shows that by the time of the Iron Age, the Palestinians were a separate population from the Jews. This means the Palestinians had to be one of the
other Iron Age cultures that arose from the ashes of Canaanite civilization.
Likely candidates for ancestors of the Palestinians are the Ammonites, Edomites, Moabites, or maybe the Phoenicians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingdoms_around_Israel_830_map.svg
Linguistics indicates that those four groups were all closely related to Bronze Age Canaanites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_languages
Now, this is not to say that the Palestinians have no right to be there today. I would have been fine with the Palestinians accepting 1967 borders back when Israel was peacefully offering it.
But enough is enough. Israel has done more than enough to try to make peace, and it is unreasonable to ask them to do more.
The Palestinians had their chance, and they blew it.