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Originally posted by fabbriche
Palestine was never an independent country for it not to allow the formation of a legal state in that land. The land was owned and controlled alternately by the Romans, Ottomans and the British for centuries, and never by the people until the League of Nations proclaimed that the land of Palestine to be the homeland for the Jews, Lebanon tas a place for Arab Christians, and Syria and Iraq to be homelands for Arab Muslims. The notion of Palestine and Palestinian Arabs politically, historically and culturally never existed. ]The Palestinian Arabs should've moved to Syria and Iraq after the mandate but they refused and instead insisted to squat on Israeli territory which is the root of this conflict.
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How dare you tell a people who's been living there for thousands of years.. to move?
Just because it was continuously occupied doesn't mean the people there didn't consider themselves to be Palestinians. They had homes, land and businesses there. Their ancestors created that country's history.
They're a real people, who have been living in that region since the beginning. They're the original settlers. They used to be Jewish, then Christian, now they're Muslim and/or Christian.
American historian Bernard Lewis writes:
"Clearly,
in Palestine as elsewhere in the Middle East, the modern inhabitants include among their ancestors those who lived in the country in antiquity. Equally obviously, the demographic mix was greatly modified over the centuries by migration, deportation, immigration, and settlement. This was particularly true in Palestine…"[69]
Genetic study
In recent years, many genetic surveys have suggested that, at least paternally,
most of the various Jewish ethnic divisions and the Palestinians — and in some cases other Levantines — are genetically closer to each other than the Palestinians or European Jews to non-Jewish Europeans (Nebel et al. 2000 study].[88]
However, a follow-up [Nebel et al. 2001 study] corrected that Jews were found to be more closely related to north of the Fertile Crescent (Kurds, Turks,and Armenians) than to their Arab neighbors.[89][90]
The same study of Nebel 2001 also suggest that Bedouins from the Levant and Palestinians, represent "early lineages derived from the Neolithic inhabitants of the area" albeit with "additional lineages from more-recent population movements.", largely from the Arabian Peninsula.
Results of a DNA study by geneticist Ariella Oppenheim appears to match historical accounts that Arab Israelis and Palestinians,[91][92] together as the one same population, represent
modern "descendants of a core population that lived in the area since prehistoric times", albeit religiously first Christianized then largely Islamized, and all eventually culturally Arabized.
They're not some random "Arabs" or "Turks", they're Palestinian. The belong there and they will never leave.
