

previously part of the Ottoman Empire, and long prior to that the Kingdom of Israel (around 1047-930 BCE)
Yeah, if you look far enough back in history, nobody had autonomy or freedom, and amost everyone was subject to imperial tyranny of some kind. So what?
One thing that’s very clear is that things said in the Bible don’t entitle anyone to take someone else’s home. It’s a holy book, not a title document.
They’re a people who have lived in the area for thousands of years
A small number did. Vastly more were part of the diaspora.
I’m part of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora. That doesn’t mean I can go to Dresden and kick some family out of their house because my ancestors lived in that area over a millennium ago. Such a claim would be seen as manifestly idiotic. And if it were two millennia, such a claim would be even more absurd.
All our ancestors originated in Africa, shall we use that as an excuse to displace some modern African people?
The largest group of people of Anglo-Saxon descent live in the US.
But a more correct analogy would be how many Anglo-Saxons want to recolonize Saxony.