"Israel is simply the ancient Kingdom of Israel restored — a 3,000-year-old deed."
Their strongest version
Jewish civilization genuinely originates in this land; the kingdoms, the Temple, and the liturgy ('next year in Jerusalem') are historical and living realities, and 1948 felt to many Jews like a return, not a founding.
The response
The connection is real; the deed is not, because no modern state anywhere holds title by ancient kingdom. Italy is not Rome's heir with claims on Britain; Greece cannot invoice Alexander's map; Iraq isn't Babylon; Mongolia doesn't administer the Khan's conquests. International law makes states from recognition, treaties, and the rights of present inhabitants — precisely because Bronze- and Iron-Age succession claims would set every border on earth at war. And notice the standard is never applied evenly: if three-millennia-old presence confers rights, the continuous presence of Palestinians — who never left — confers them too. Modern Israel's actual legal basis is the 1947 partition resolution and subsequent recognition; that basis carved out, in the same breath, a state for the other people of the land. Invoke the founding documents and you've invoked Palestine. Invoke the ancient kingdom instead, and you've left law entirely — for a register where the map on the minister's podium stretches to the Euphrates.