You know that thing, when Rednecks say, you shall go back to where you came from?
Well, guess what, that's where the people of Israel came from. They literally returned back home. Everyone who is fighting to acquire parts of their home is trying to rob & steal.
Problem #1:
Pre-Roman-era Judah was approximately coextensive with modern metropolitan Jerusalem.
Pre-Roman-era Israel was even smaller.
Pre-Roman-era Samaria was about the same, and frequently at war with the other two.
Combined, they cover a tiny area of modern Palestine.
Problem #2:
Most of the Jewish community in Judah and Israel abandoned Judaism after the (humiliatingly failed) Bar Kokhba revolt of 132-136. Their descendants intermarried with other faiths during the long centuries of peace, and call themselves Falesteen.
Guess what that ethnonym is in English?
