Pretty much any argument in favor of the Israelis taking over Palestine (they are more productive, more advanced, more literate,more fanatically religious, more civilized) has been used by the British in their taking over Ireland (the Irish are incompetent, backward priest-ridden illiterates) and holding onto it for 400 years, and to the Northern counties forever.
It turns out that Ireland today has cast off the Holy Mother Church and is one of the most prosperous nations in the EU.