The Irish and the Jews occupied the lands long before the English and
Palistinines, respectively, breached the borders.


Irish, yes. Jews, no.

The oldest recorded inhabitants of the area now called Israel were tribes that
are generally ancestral to the Palestinians.
I don't know what religion you practice, if any, but if it happens to be
Christianity, Judaism, or Islam, refer to the book of Exodus. It's considered
holy writ in all three traditions, and it clearly records the invasion of "the
promised land" by Joshua and the Jewish exiles from Egypt.

And talk about terrorism, wow. Yahweh, the Hebrew diety, instructed Joshua to
kill all the men, women, children, and even the livestock in the various towns
and cities they conquered.

Until immediately after WWII, there hadn't really been a "Jewish state" in
Israel for almost 2000 years. The area was
solidly Muslim during the time of the Crusades, and that does go back a piece.
:-)