How do you measure that over centuries and in this case, millennia. Someone probably owned it before them. It is a fact that I lived there, in the city, some forty odd years ago. If there are people alive to remember what was, then it is the present. The Israelis want peace.
Peace is negotiable through the trading of land.
When land is traded, the details, social, religious, historical, cultural, economic, all get dissected and reviewed. Every little detail has got to be examined before anything happens. I am beginning to think that my uncle is right. It will happen when the Jordan runs backwards. This might seem quite strange since unlike the question of borders, territory or water rights, the possession of Jerusalem does not confer a material advantage on the Palestinians.