The Assyrians conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel but failed to take Judea and Jerusalem, its capital.

The Babylonian Chronicles call Jerusalem "the city of Judah".

The Persians restored the Jews to Jerusalem, the Temple being rebuilt and the period that follows being known as the Second Temple Period (it is this Temple that the Maccabean Revolt liberated some 350 years later).

So contrary to the author's claim, even if there is some academic debate over when Jewish rule of Jerusalem began, archeological and historical evidence show that Jews ruled Jerusalem or lived under foreign occupation throughout the first millennium BCE.

He also ignores that there were THREE major religions of those who lived in the Palestine area before the state of Israel was created: the Jews of Israel are mostly of Palestinian Jewish heritage.

Israel has lots of Muslims and Christians of Palestinian background as well as Jews and others. It sounds like only the Jewish ones are being targeted for reassignment.

Note that Europeans historically did not consider even the so-called "European" Jews to be "white". Modern genetic DNA analysis shows that “European” Jews are genetically closer to Mideast populations than to Europeans.

Does “Irish” really mean to imply that Middle Easterners are out of place in Europe today? Why would a person who describes them as a “brown colony” in Europe be any less racist than “Irish”?

This is a distortion of history. The evacuation of the Jewish quarter in Jerusalem was mutually agreed upon in a meeting between the Zionist leaders and the Jordanians. The Jordanians then carried it out in a manner that was praised even by the evacuees themselves as humane and compassionate. Several Jordanian soldiers were killed or wounded protecting the Jewish evacuees.

As for the "razing of the synagogues", that, too, has been misrepresented. The Hurva synagogue provides one of numerous examples in which synagogues were destroyed as a direct result of the Haganah having chosen to use them to fight from. As UN Secretary of the Palestine Commission Pablo de Azcarate observed the Haganah had turned synagogues such as the Hurva into "their last redoubt", making it difficult to determine whether it was the Arab Legion or the Haganah that should be held responsible for their destruction.

Stan is also incorrect when he insists that "Internationalization of Jerusalem…is as unacceptable to the Palestinians as to the Israelis". The fact is that internationalization of Jerusalem is one of several solutions that the Palestinians have put forth at one time or another as acceptable to them. It is the Israelis who have rejected this along with other solutions that would not result in absolute Israeli ownership and control of the entire city.