Subject: Re: The UK owes the Palestinians reparations
The Hebrews were never in Egypt. At least not in any quantity. The Book of Exodus is wrong. Israeli archeologists have pretty much settled that question. Which is ironic given that they were supposed to -as I heard it put- "find the deeds to the land". Instead, they showed the flight from Egypt didn't happen, and the slaughter of the Canaanites didn't happen (turns out the Canaanites and Israelites are one and the same).

Other than when they were removed by the Babylonians, they appear to have been there for millenia. The Palestinian history is a little less clear to me, but I believe they've been there comparably long.