Back in the middle ages if you were a powerful nation and won a battle you were entitled to keep any  land gained. After the signing of the Geneva conventions that went out the window; no-one is allowed to take land through war.. not even Israel. So it doesn't matter who Israel "conquered" they dont get to keep the land, especially as they have agreed in the past to a 2 state solution. And if we are talking about 1948 when the UN agreed to the state of Israel, it is historic fact that Israelis expelled and murdered many Arabs living in what now is Israel but was before land belonging to the Arabs. It doesn't matter if Hebron  "was the oldest jewish settlement on earth", under past rules where you could keep the land you won, dubious jewish ownership had passed to others. I so wish Kerry and the Obama Government had had the courage to make this speech at the beginning of his mandate instead of now where it threatens to be undone by the Big Idiot Trump.