I just have memories of the early days of genetic sequencing research breakthroughs and the Israeli government started to order it’s scientists to sequence the Israeli and Palestinian DNA to “prove” their difference… only to very quickly learn they were almost identical, stop the program, and try and stop people from talking about it.
It’s not about their case for being there. It’s about their desire to be distinct from them. Harder to “other” and genocide your own people.