Israel rightly created on the site of the original Jewish homeland

Daniel Teegan is ignorant of history (Irish Examiner, Letters, June 25). He bemoans the creation of Israel, in 1948, on the basis that the Palestinians lived there for thousands of years.

He cannot be disputing that the Jewish homeland was where Israel is today, even if some dispute the borders or that there wasn’t a previous state of Israel.

Who does he think King David was?