your argument was that 'the people' predated 'the country'. By your statement above, that's simply not correct.
Let's use China as an example. During the history of what we now know as China, there have been other names for the mass of land such as 'Mongolia' during Khans reign, and I think you'll find the language was different. I'm pretty sure Chinese people would not refer to themselves as Mongolian just because that's what China was once called. Things have changed a bit since Khan left the scene too. It's a different place now than it was then. Not the same.
The people who lived in what you now call America didn't speak the same language as you do and they definitely didn't call themselves american did they?
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Israel is the land of the Jews in the same way that China is the land of Chinese people, Italy is the land of the Italian people, Greece is the land of the Greek, etc.
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It certainly does not prove your argument that the people predated the country.