The Torah begins by telling about G-d’s creation of the world. Really, it would have made sense to start with the first Mitzvah that the Jewish People were commanded, because that’s what the Torah is about. But it starts with the creation to show that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People. If the nations of the world claim that the Jews stole the Land, we can tell them that G-d created it and gave it to whom He chose. He chose to give it to them, and He chose to take it from them and give it to the Jewish People. The whole world was created for the Torah and the Jewish People. G-d gave the most chosen Land to His chosen nation. The ultimate perfection of the G-dly service of the Jewish People is in the Land of Israel.
Even the nations of the world have announced that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People, as it is written in the Torah, or as they call it, the “Bible”, which they also consider as a holy book.
(See talk of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Bereishis 5752 (1991))
