Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine
Land is one's whoever has it for the time being. If another one feels it as a homeland, then he fires up his guts and tries to take it back. This is the natural cycle that ran for the whole history.

Someone having a history with a territory does not render invalid another one from claiming it the place to live and settle there, hence worth defending for himself. I don't see the use of numbers here, no historians used either.
So, as long as one wants the land, it is said person's homeland? With the U.S. invading the Middle East, is the Middle East a homeland of Americans? Does that mean that any foreign invader has the 'right' to whatever land he invades?
I am also interested to see your thoughts on Zionism, if it isn't an inconvenience and doesn't steer this thread off topic.