The Israelis were God's chosen people, and God promised the land to Abraham and gave the Israelis the land in the first place. In the Bible, Genesis 15:18-21 states this: On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”