A country's identity is built on a "founding myth" that provides social cohesion, like the idealized story of Thanksgiving. This narrative is often a deliberate simplification to mask a brutal reality. The conflict between the useful myth and historical truth is where a nation's soul is contested.

The historical establishment of Israel is presented as a playbook for political conquest through demographics. A group can immigrate into a region, grow its numbers until it becomes a dominant political class, and eventually assume control, a strategy potentially being replicated by other groups in modern nations.

The Palestinian claim has evolved from denying the existence of a Jewish kingdom (as Arafat did at Camp David) to a new theory that modern Jews descend from Khazar converts. Roy Altman notes this shift and argues the latter claim has been thoroughly disproven by extensive genetic studies.

The Roman emperor Hadrian renamed the province of Judea to 'Palestina' after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of the Israelites. This was a deliberate act to sever the connection between the Jewish people and their land following a failed rebellion, an ancient example of political rebranding with modern implications.

When exiled from their sacred land and temple, the Jewish religion fundamentally shifted. It moved from a place-based sacredness to one defined by portable, non-geographical markers like dietary laws and circumcision, allowing the religion to survive and thrive in diaspora.

Author Roy Altman applies a legal principle to historical debates: evidence, like an ancient stele mentioning 'Israel,' is more reliable if it was created thousands of years before the modern Zionist dispute arose, removing any incentive for fabrication.

DNA studies reveal that Iraqi and Iranian Jewish populations are the most genetically distant from other global Jewish communities. This divergence dates back approximately 2,500 years, aligning perfectly with the historical and archaeological records of the Babylonian Exile, when a portion of the Jewish population remained in Persia.

A key element of settler colonialism is extracting resources for a home empire. Judge Roy Altman argues this framework is inapplicable to Israel, as there is no metropole benefiting from its existence. The Jewish people, as Golda Meir quipped, have nowhere else to go.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee cited the Book of Genesis to support Israel’s right to claim vast Middle East territories. This demonstrates how ancient theological arguments, detached from modern international law, are actively used by state officials to legitimize expansionist foreign policy.