Steve, do you think you are being clever comparing the Jews to Hitler? Believe me, its been done so many times its overdone. But that doesn't begin to address how outrageous that is to compare the same people who suffered the loss of 6,000,000 of their people to gas chambers, camps, and summary executions with the man who publically commanded these horrors be carried out. But putting Hitler aside for the moment, I wanted to seriously address the issue of whether God gave Israel to the Hebrew people.

Since matters of religion involve issues of faith, these will never truly be resolved among peoples of different religious faiths or those who do not believe in a supreme deity. I would like to address this issue from all three angles:

THE JEWISH PERSPECTIVE

The Torah, the religious text for the Jewish people clearly delineates God intervening on behalf of the Hebrew people, who were living in slavery in Egypt, far from their home. And through Moses, leading them (eventually) to a new land whose borders are clearly delineated.
These were roughly the same borders for the Kingdom of David about 1000 BC. They include the current borders of Israel plus Gaza and the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.

THE CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE

Needless to say, Christians incorporate Judaism by including the Old Testament in their Bible. That Bible also has text supportive of the Jews being given the Land of Israel by God.

THE ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

Interestingly, verses in the Koran also claim that God had, for whatever unknowable reason, given that land to the Jews as well.

THE COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVE

Communists generally do not believe in a supreme being. They are largely agnostics and aetheists considering these beliefs as mere fairy stories or, more kindly as unknowable.

THE SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE

Yet even the aetheists cannot discount archeological evidence of Hebrew culture dating back thousands of years, right in the area where Israel is today.

THE POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE

UN Resolution 181 partitioned the remnant portion of Palestine (Jordan had already been carved out of Palestine, governed by the Hashemite Kingdom) into a Jewish State--Israel and an Islamic State---Palestine. What followed was the 1948 war.

The Israelis even revived a dead language, Hebrew, and today many many people in Israel speak Hebrew.

THE MANIFEST DESTINY PERSPECTIVE

Before the Zionists came to set up the national homeland for the Jewish people, Palestine was underpopulated, filled with malarial swamps, and largly a desert area with few natural resources.

After Israel declared her independence, the land bloomed with agriculture and industry, and an increased population of both Jews and non-Jews. A nation appeared out of nowhere.

Did God give Israel to the Jews?

While the answer to this question is very personal and unprovable, the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.