Palestinian Arabs.They began to be called Palestinians since 1967.It is true that Israel is a nation of patchwork nationalities. People from many countries. It is certainly also true that there are many Jews whose ancestry makes them indigenous. That is to the land. Not the nation. What happened to the Jews was horrible to say the least. How many times have the Jews been beaten up on. A few. That doesn't make taking land from someone else to found a nation. Does everyone feel bad enough for them that we are willing to overlook some activities that the Nazis might have done? I don't think it was right, no matter what happened, to take the land from the Palestinians for their country.Then what does that make the other 70% of people in Israel, Mongols or Brazilians. Or don't you like the truth about Israel being 60% Sephardic Jews with very few Ashkenazi Jews left. So this one small fact destroys your every post about the Jews being INVADERS and COLONISTS when in fact they are indigenous to the area. Unlike the arab muslims that are just bums from the surrounding lands.
The last Muslims to occupy the land were the Ottoman Turks (1516-1917); the Muslims now suing for the land are Arabs.
Jews are called Jews because they come from Judea. Arabs are called Arabs because they hail from the Arabian Peninsula.
There has never been a country called Palestine; Palestine is a geographical term -- not a political one. If you gainsay my assertion, I challenge you to name one of its kings.
Here's Greco-Roman historian Cassius Dio (164-c.235) as to whom the land belongs to: "At Jerusalem, Hadrian founded a city in place of the one which had been razed to the ground, naming it Aelia Capitolina, and on the site of the TEMPLE ... he raised a new temple to Jupiter.
This brought on a war of no slight importance nor of brief duration, for the JEWS deemed it intolerable that foreign races should be settled in THEIR city and foreign religious rites planted there." [All emphases mine] (From Cassius Dio, Roman history 69.12.1-14.3)
Tell the Palestinians that, you know the people that lived in Palestine., yes and the people who lived there are called Palestinians.Palestine is a geographical term
What were they called before then, Brits, Turks, Arabians, Romans, Hasmoneans (most were Edomites), Greeks, Judeans, Samarians, Israelites (northern Israel) , Persians, Egyptians??
Take your pick?