The Balfour declaration, and related documents of the time
make no mention of national type rights for the indigenous people.
One who claims they were a people at the time should explain how that was missed.
One who claims they have since become a people, should present claims to national rights,
from the date it happened, or explain why he justifies retroactive claims.
If we assign rights to groups and two groups claim the same rights,
it may be reasonable to compare the depth of that “group feeling” in each group,
in history, literature, language, religion etc…
Comparing Jews to Palestinians, there’s no doubt that Jewish claims
to people-hood are more serious than those of the Palestinians.