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A train of donkeys and Arabs crosses from Transjordan into Palestine on a bridge over the Jordan River, July 3, 1936. The assertion that Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population is central in their dispute with Israel. But waves of immigration from other Arab countries brought many to the territory. In 1936, a French high commissioner for Syria asserted that Arabs were moving from Damascus to Palestine because of the prosperity there.
The assertion that Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population is central in their dispute with Israel. The message is that Jews stole and now occupy the land of the indigenous Arab population. Rarely challenged, the claim is widespread, such as this statement from Henry Cattan, a Palestinian Christian jurist and writer born in Jerusalem:
The Palestinians are the original and continuous inhabitants of Palestine from time immemorial.[1]
Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas elaborated this claim in a recent speech:
Our narrative says that we were in this land since before Abraham. I am not saying it. The Bible says it. The Bible says, in these words, that the Palestinians existed before Abraham. So why don't you recognize my right?[2]
Saeb Erekat, the PA's chief negotiator, stated:
I am the son of Jericho. ... the proud son of the Netufians and the Canaanites. I've been there for 5,500 years before Joshua Bin Nun came and burned my hometown Jericho.[3]
To be sure, some Arabs are descendants of the indigenous occupants. But waves of immigration into the Holy Land brought Jews, Arabs, and others to the territories, to the point that most of today's Arabic-speakers do not trace their roots back for centuries.
There were no "Palestinians" living there when the land was turned over to Israel by the British.
Here were the real landowners:
71.2% of the land was owned by British
8.6% was owned by Jews
3.3% was owned by resident Arabs
16.9% was owned by non resident Arabs. < Jews bought that land at exorbitant prices.
When the Jews returned to the land, a few Arabs moved to Israel to live and work among the Jews. Egypt told them to get out, because Egypt was about to invade Israel. They did. Egypt lost, refused to allow the displaced to reside in Egypt, so they squatted on the outskirts of Israel. They did not qualify for aid because they had been there less that 24 months.
Those squatters are Egypt's problem, not Israels. Israel asked them not to leave.
They have since become a terrorist organization, that no one wants.
Quote:
A train of donkeys and Arabs crosses from Transjordan into Palestine on a bridge over the Jordan River, July 3, 1936. The assertion that Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population is central in their dispute with Israel. But waves of immigration from other Arab countries brought many to the territory. In 1936, a French high commissioner for Syria asserted that Arabs were moving from Damascus to Palestine because of the prosperity there.
The assertion that Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population is central in their dispute with Israel. The message is that Jews stole and now occupy the land of the indigenous Arab population. Rarely challenged, the claim is widespread, such as this statement from Henry Cattan, a Palestinian Christian jurist and writer born in Jerusalem:
The Palestinians are the original and continuous inhabitants of Palestine from time immemorial.[1]
Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas elaborated this claim in a recent speech:
Our narrative says that we were in this land since before Abraham. I am not saying it. The Bible says it. The Bible says, in these words, that the Palestinians existed before Abraham. So why don't you recognize my right?[2]
Saeb Erekat, the PA's chief negotiator, stated:
I am the son of Jericho. ... the proud son of the Netufians and the Canaanites. I've been there for 5,500 years before Joshua Bin Nun came and burned my hometown Jericho.[3]
To be sure, some Arabs are descendants of the indigenous occupants. But waves of immigration into the Holy Land brought Jews, Arabs, and others to the territories, to the point that most of today's Arabic-speakers do not trace their roots back for centuries.
There were no "Palestinians" living there when the land was turned over to Israel by the British.
Here were the real landowners:
71.2% of the land was owned by British
8.6% was owned by Jews
3.3% was owned by resident Arabs
16.9% was owned by non resident Arabs. < Jews bought that land at exorbitant prices.
When the Jews returned to the land, a few Arabs moved to Israel to live and work among the Jews. Egypt told them to get out, because Egypt was about to invade Israel. They did. Egypt lost, refused to allow the displaced to reside in Egypt, so they squatted on the outskirts of Israel. They did not qualify for aid because they had been there less that 24 months.
Those squatters are Egypt's problem, not Israels. Israel asked them not to leave.
They have since become a terrorist organization, that no one wants.
The British owned the land, they didn't live there.