The Israeli Government has launched a campaign encouraging its citizens to represent the country abroad. Here is a clip from a video by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Public Diplomacy.
Israelis abroad, they say, should emphasize that 25 settlements were evacuated during the disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and that this took place "despite our historic right to the land." The dozens of settlements still in place are completely ignored.
While the argument over the construction freeze continues, both between Israel and the Palestinians and within Israeli itself, Israelis – according to the Ministry of Information – are not supposed to have any doubts regarding their legitimacy. "The settlements renew ancient Jewish settlement, and their creation does not involve uprooting any Arabs," the Ministry asks Israelis to emphasize. "Most of the Arab towns and villages in Judea and Samaria have biblical names, and are testimony to Jewish roots in this area."
However physical evidence demonstrates that the current Palestinians are direct decedents of Canaan people, which lived in the disputed land, centuries before any Jewish people migrated there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan
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