The Palestinians are all over today.

One Palestinian official said they will never again sit down with Israel for direct negotiations. Is that a threat? They have not sat down for direct negotiations with us for a few years already, so his threat really changes nothing.

Another Palestinian official said the Jews are not indigenous to this land and they should go back to their country of origin.

ok. I am not quite sure what "country of origin" means. I made aliyah from the United States. Is that my country of origin? That is easy enough for those of us who are US expats, and those who are expats from most Western European countries. Not so sure how well that works for expats from Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Ethiopia and some other countries.

Is it our personal countries of origin or our national country of origin? Our national country of origin was Israel, though it used to be called by different names in different times (Palestine, Judea, Samaria, etc).

Do they want us to go back to where Abraham came from -Iraq? Maybe we can have a state in Egypt because we lived there for a few hundred years before going returning (after Jacob had left) to Israel.

Should we go back to a more recent country, or countries, of origin, such as where we largely came from shortly before the foundation of the State of Israel - Germany, Russia, Poland, Hungary, etc? We were not all that welcome there either. As a matter of fact, the national peoples of almost all the lands and countries we ever lived in always told us to go home and leave their countries, and they pointed us toward Israel.

I think I will just stay in this country of origin.