Who were the inhabitants of Palestine before the Zionists?

[Jroc]

Anybody that thinks there were some thriving Arab communities in "Palestine " before Zionism is delusional, the Arabs only started settling there after the Jews started returning to cultivate and revive a neglected land.

Who were the inhabitants of "Palestine" before the Zionists?

The disparate peoples recently assumed and purported to be "settled Arab indigenes, for a thousand years" were in fact a "heterogeneous" community with no "Palestinian" identity, and according to an official British historical analysis in 1920, no Arab identity either:

The people west of the Jordan are not Arabs, but only Arabic-speaking. The bulk of the population are fellahin.... In the Gaza district they are mostly of Egyptian origin; elsewhere they are of the most mixed race.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica finds the "population" of Palestine composed of so "widely differing" a group of "inhabitants" -- whose "ethnological affinities" create "early in the 20th century a list of no less than fifty languages" that "it is therefore no easy task to write concisely ... on the ethnology of Palestine." In addition to the "Assyrian, Persian and Roman" elements of ancient times, "the short-lived Egyptian government introduced into the population an element from that country which still persists in the villages." There are very large contingents from the Mediterranean countries, especially Armenia, Greece and Italy . . . Turkoman settlements ... a number of Persians and a fairly large Afghan colony . . . Motawila ... long settled immigrants from Persia ... tribes of Kurds ... German "Templar" colonies ... a Bosnian colony ... and the Circassian settlements placed in certain centres ... by the Turkish government in order to keep a restraint on the Bedouin ... a large Algerian element in the population ... still maintain(s) [while] the Sudanese have been reduced in numbers since the beginning of the 20th century.

In the late eighteenth century, 3,000 Albanians recruited by Russians were settled in Acre. The Encyclopaedia Britannica finds "most interesting all the non-Arab communities in the country . . . the Samaritan sect in Nablus (Shechem); a gradually disappearing body" once "settled by the Assyrians to occupy the land left waste by the captivity of the Kingdom of Israel."

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[Marc39]

Your premise is incorrect: The correct historic geographical name of the land is Canaan or Judea. "Palestine" was a Roman invention, derived from the Romans renaming Judea (Israel) "Palaestina" after the Jewish Revolt in 135 AD, named after the Philistines, ancient enemies of the Hebrews originating from the Aegean Sea (Greece), in an effort to destroy any historical connection between Jews and Judea. "Palestine," thus, is not an Arab or Hebrew word, it is Latin-derived.

Thus, "Palestine" is not Arab or Hebrew. The Philistines were not Arab or Hebrew. The Romans were not Arab or Hebrew.

For this reason, "Palestine" does not exist in any ancient historical records or archaeological artifacts. Nor, does Palestine exist in the Old Testament, the New Testament or the Quran.

"Palestine" was revived by the British in the 20th century during the British Mandate, when both Jews and Arabs were known as Palestinians, though, Arabs resisted the description.

Palestine and Palestinians are both fictions.

Jews lived in Judea for at least 2,000 years before Arabs and Muslims, who invaded Judea in 636 CE and conquered it from the Byzantines, when Jews lived in the land since at least 1200-1300 BCE.

 

[Jroc]

Your premise is incorrect: The correct historic geographical name of the land is Canaan or Judea. "Palestine" was a Roman invention, derived from the Romans renaming Judea (Israel) "Palaestina" after the Jewish Revolt in 135 AD, named after the Philistines, ancient enemies of the Hebrews originating from the Aegean Sea (Greece), in an effort to destroy any historical connection between Jews and Judea. "Palestine," thus, is not an Arab or Hebrew word, it is Latin-derived.

Thus, "Palestine" is not Arab or Hebrew. The Philistines were not Arab or Hebrew. The Romans were not Arab or Hebrew.

For this reason, "Palestine" does not exist in any ancient historical records or archaeological artifacts. Nor, does Palestine exist in the Old Testament, the New Testament or the Quran.

"Palestine" was revived by the British in the 20th century during the British Mandate, when both Jews and Arabs were known as Palestinians, though, Arabs resisted the description.

Palestine and Palestinians are both fictions.

Jews lived in Judea for at least 2,000 years before Arabs and Muslims, who invaded Judea in 636 CE and conquered it from the Byzantines, when Jews lived in the land since at least 1200-1300 BCE.

I know all that.. I fucked up I meant to put the word "Palestine" in quotes I'll fix it, I'm just making the point that there was no thriving Arab communities in that region before the Zionist movement started.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Check out "innocents abroad" It is a good read and it is pretty educational about what life was like there before the jews came back in big numbers.

 

[Marc39]

Your premise is incorrect: The correct historic geographical name of the land is Canaan or Judea. "Palestine" was a Roman invention, derived from the Romans renaming Judea (Israel) "Palaestina" after the Jewish Revolt in 135 AD, named after the Philistines, ancient enemies of the Hebrews originating from the Aegean Sea (Greece), in an effort to destroy any historical connection between Jews and Judea. "Palestine," thus, is not an Arab or Hebrew word, it is Latin-derived.

Thus, "Palestine" is not Arab or Hebrew. The Philistines were not Arab or Hebrew. The Romans were not Arab or Hebrew.

For this reason, "Palestine" does not exist in any ancient historical records or archaeological artifacts. Nor, does Palestine exist in the Old Testament, the New Testament or the Quran.

"Palestine" was revived by the British in the 20th century during the British Mandate, when both Jews and Arabs were known as Palestinians, though, Arabs resisted the description.

Palestine and Palestinians are both fictions.

Jews lived in Judea for at least 2,000 years before Arabs and Muslims, who invaded Judea in 636 CE and conquered it from the Byzantines, when Jews lived in the land since at least 1200-1300 BCE.

I know all that.. I fucked up I meant to put the word "Palestine" in quotes I'll fix it, I'm just making the point that there was no thriving Arab communities in that region before the Zionist movement started.

There was an Arab community prior to the Zionist movement, though Arabs iidentified mostly as Muslims, not Arabs, since the 7th century. Arab nationalism lasted for about 2 years in the mid-20th century when Egypt and Syria tried to establish an Arab movement which fizzled.

 

[Marc39]

Check out "innocents abroad" It is a good read and it is pretty educational about what life was like there before the jews came back in big numbers.

Where are all the Palestinians at?

Mark Twain...

Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they are
unpicturesque in shape. The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sleep in the midst of a vast stretch of hill and plain wherein the eye rests upon no pleasant tint, no striking object, no soft picture dreaming in a purple haze or mottled with the shadows of the clouds. Every outline is harsh, every feature is distinct, there is no perspective--distance works no enchantment here. It is a hopeless, dreary, heart-broken land.

Small shreds and patches of it must be very beautiful in the full flush of spring, however, and all the more beautiful by contrast with the far-reaching desolation that surrounds them on every side. I would like much to see the fringes of the Jordan in spring-time, and Shechem, Esdraelon, Ajalon and the borders of Galilee--but even then these spots would seem mere toy gardens set at wide intervals in the waste of a limitless desolation.

Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. Where
Sodom and Gomorrah reared their domes and towers, that solemn sea now floods the plain, in whose bitter waters no living thing exists--over whose waveless surface the blistering air hangs motionless and dead--about whose borders nothing grows but weeds, and scattering tufts of cane, and that treacherous fruit that promises refreshment to parching lips, but turns to ashes at the touch. Nazareth is forlorn; about that ford of Jordan where the hosts of Israel entered the Promised Land with songs of rejoicing, one finds only a squalid camp of fantastic Bedouins
of the desert; Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin, to-day, even as Joshua's miracle left it more than three thousand years ago; Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew the high honor of the Saviour's presence; the hallowed spot where the shepherds watched their flocks by night, and where the angels sang Peace on earth, good will to
men, is untenanted by any living creature, and unblessed by any feature that is pleasant to the eye. Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and is become a pauper village; the riches of Solomon are no longer there to compel the admiration of visiting Oriental queens; the wonderful temple which was the pride and the glory of Israel, is gone, and the Ottoman crescent is lifted above the spot where, on that most memorable day in the annals of the world, they reared the Holy Cross. The noted Sea of Galilee, where Roman fleets once rode at anchor and the disciples of the Saviour sailed
in their ships, was long ago deserted by the devotees of war and
commerce, and its borders are a silent wilderness; Capernaum is a shapeless ruin; Magdala is the home of beggared Arabs; Bethsaida and Chorazin have vanished from the earth, and the "desert places" round about them where thousands of men once listened to the Saviour's voice and ate the miraculous bread, sleep in the hush of a solitude that is inhabited only by birds of prey and skulking foxes.

Palestine is desolate and unlovely. And why should it be otherwise? Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land?

Palestine is no more of this work-day world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition--it is dream-land.

Innocents Abroad - Chapter LVI by Mark Twain

 

[Urbanguerrilla]

Who were the inhabitants of "Palestine" before the Zionists?

The disparate peoples recently assumed and purported to be "settled Arab indigenes, for a thousand years" were in fact a "heterogeneous" community with no "Palestinian" identity, and according to an official British historical analysis in 1920, no Arab identity either

Sounds like the good ole US of A

"a land without a people for a people without a land". Still, only few regarded the Arab presence as a real obstacle to the fulfillment of Zionism.

Well they there now, an you better get used to it cause they ain't goin nowhere fast

Interesting that you make the point that the Palestinians are only there as recently as the vast majority of Israelis, so its quits on that even if one accepted your premise...

 

[Jos]

Whois Palestinefacts.org - Palestine Facts Welcome to Palestine Facts =ZOA
Zionist Organization of America
Zionist Organization of America.
Agenda?

 

[u2scram]

Israel did not exist before 1948. Palestine did. That simple fact alone tells you were justice lies in this matter!**

“The population of Palestine, predominantly agricultural, was about 690,000 in 1914, 535,000 Muslims; 70,000 Christians, most of whom were Arabs; and 85,000 Jews." (Encyclopaedia Britannica).**

There was no substantial Jewish population until after ww2 when Jews were 'imported'. Often wealthy Zionists financed them. Wealthy Zionists who incidentally, decided to remain were they where!**

The Chinese have used similar tactics, massive immigration, to subjugate Tibet, a similar crime against humanity.**

 

[P F Tinmore]

The old lie that Palestine was dry desert waiting for a people is just that--a lie. This clip for all people to see the Beauty of the Palestinian People before they were ethnically cleansed and murdered and made into refugees by the State of Israel.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEBQ_bE7uA[/ame]

 

[Freeman]

Your premise is incorrect: The correct historic geographical name of the land is Canaan or Judea. "Palestine" was a Roman invention, derived from the Romans renaming Judea (Israel) "Palaestina" after the Jewish Revolt in 135 AD, named after the Philistines, ancient enemies of the Hebrews originating from the Aegean Sea (Greece), in an effort to destroy any historical connection between Jews and Judea. "Palestine," thus, is not an Arab or Hebrew word, it is Latin-derived.

Thus, "Palestine" is not Arab or Hebrew. The Philistines were not Arab or Hebrew. The Romans were not Arab or Hebrew.

For this reason, "Palestine" does not exist in any ancient historical records or archaeological artifacts. Nor, does Palestine exist in the Old Testament, the New Testament or the Quran.

"Palestine" was revived by the British in the 20th century during the British Mandate, when both Jews and Arabs were known as Palestinians, though, Arabs resisted the description.

Palestine and Palestinians are both fictions.

Jews lived in Judea for at least 2,000 years before Arabs and Muslims, who invaded Judea in 636 CE and conquered it from the Byzantines, when Jews lived in the land since at least 1200-1300 BCE.

I know all that.. I fucked up I meant to put the word "Palestine" in quotes I'll fix it, I'm just making the point that there was no thriving Arab communities in that region before the Zionist movement started.

The jewish professor Ilan Pappe will explain you who were there:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxxMppPxXCw[/ame]

 

[Freeman]

Before WWI there were 56000 joos among 644.000 palestinians so:

92% palestinians
8% joos

Today:
80% are joos and 20% palestinians who have not immigrated.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Anybody that thinks there were some thriving Arab communities in "Palestine " before Zionism is delusional, the Arabs only started settling there after the Jews started returning to cultivate and revive a neglected land.

Who were the inhabitants of "Palestine" before the Zionists?

The disparate peoples recently assumed and purported to be "settled Arab indigenes, for a thousand years" were in fact a "heterogeneous" community with no "Palestinian" identity, and according to an official British historical analysis in 1920, no Arab identity either:

The people west of the Jordan are not Arabs, but only Arabic-speaking. The bulk of the population are fellahin.... In the Gaza district they are mostly of Egyptian origin; elsewhere they are of the most mixed race.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica finds the "population" of Palestine composed of so "widely differing" a group of "inhabitants" -- whose "ethnological affinities" create "early in the 20th century a list of no less than fifty languages" that "it is therefore no easy task to write concisely ... on the ethnology of Palestine." In addition to the "Assyrian, Persian and Roman" elements of ancient times, "the short-lived Egyptian government introduced into the population an element from that country which still persists in the villages." There are very large contingents from the Mediterranean countries, especially Armenia, Greece and Italy . . . Turkoman settlements ... a number of Persians and a fairly large Afghan colony . . . Motawila ... long settled immigrants from Persia ... tribes of Kurds ... German "Templar" colonies ... a Bosnian colony ... and the Circassian settlements placed in certain centres ... by the Turkish government in order to keep a restraint on the Bedouin ... a large Algerian element in the population ... still maintain(s) [while] the Sudanese have been reduced in numbers since the beginning of the 20th century.

In the late eighteenth century, 3,000 Albanians recruited by Russians were settled in Acre. The Encyclopaedia Britannica finds "most interesting all the non-Arab communities in the country . . . the Samaritan sect in Nablus (Shechem); a gradually disappearing body" once "settled by the Assyrians to occupy the land left waste by the captivity of the Kingdom of Israel."

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And this is relevant, how?

 

[u2scram]

Ben Gurion, the first 'Israeli' prime minister...

"“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

why indeed? no-one will accept that. would you?

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[editec]

Anybody that thinks there were some thriving Arab communities in "Palestine " before Zionism is delusional, the Arabs only started settling there after the Jews started returning to cultivate and revive a neglected land.

Who were the inhabitants of "Palestine" before the Zionists?

The disparate peoples recently assumed and purported to be "settled Arab indigenes, for a thousand years" were in fact a "heterogeneous" community with no "Palestinian" identity, and according to an official British historical analysis in 1920, no Arab identity either:

The people west of the Jordan are not Arabs, but only Arabic-speaking. The bulk of the population are fellahin.... In the Gaza district they are mostly of Egyptian origin; elsewhere they are of the most mixed race.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica finds the "population" of Palestine composed of so "widely differing" a group of "inhabitants" -- whose "ethnological affinities" create "early in the 20th century a list of no less than fifty languages" that "it is therefore no easy task to write concisely ... on the ethnology of Palestine." In addition to the "Assyrian, Persian and Roman" elements of ancient times, "the short-lived Egyptian government introduced into the population an element from that country which still persists in the villages." There are very large contingents from the Mediterranean countries, especially Armenia, Greece and Italy . . . Turkoman settlements ... a number of Persians and a fairly large Afghan colony . . . Motawila ... long settled immigrants from Persia ... tribes of Kurds ... German "Templar" colonies ... a Bosnian colony ... and the Circassian settlements placed in certain centres ... by the Turkish government in order to keep a restraint on the Bedouin ... a large Algerian element in the population ... still maintain(s) [while] the Sudanese have been reduced in numbers since the beginning of the 20th century.

In the late eighteenth century, 3,000 Albanians recruited by Russians were settled in Acre. The Encyclopaedia Britannica finds "most interesting all the non-Arab communities in the country . . . the Samaritan sect in Nablus (Shechem); a gradually disappearing body" once "settled by the Assyrians to occupy the land left waste by the captivity of the Kingdom of Israel."

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Who they were (what we call them) really doesn't much matter does it?

The people who lived in the land formerly known as Palestine were the people who lived in the land formerly known as Palestine.

And whether or not their land was thriving is also not relevant.

Not unless you believe that people have the right to take over somebody else's land because theire not doing enough with it, of course.

Do you?

Cause if you do, you're not doing enough with the money in your pocket and I can do better things with it so give it to me because you don't deserve to have it.

Does that really sound right to you?

Didn't think so.

 

[Marc39]

Anybody that thinks there were some thriving Arab communities in "Palestine " before Zionism is delusional, the Arabs only started settling there after the Jews started returning to cultivate and revive a neglected land.

Who were the inhabitants of "Palestine" before the Zionists?

The disparate peoples recently assumed and purported to be "settled Arab indigenes, for a thousand years" were in fact a "heterogeneous" community with no "Palestinian" identity, and according to an official British historical analysis in 1920, no Arab identity either:

The people west of the Jordan are not Arabs, but only Arabic-speaking. The bulk of the population are fellahin.... In the Gaza district they are mostly of Egyptian origin; elsewhere they are of the most mixed race.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica finds the "population" of Palestine composed of so "widely differing" a group of "inhabitants" -- whose "ethnological affinities" create "early in the 20th century a list of no less than fifty languages" that "it is therefore no easy task to write concisely ... on the ethnology of Palestine." In addition to the "Assyrian, Persian and Roman" elements of ancient times, "the short-lived Egyptian government introduced into the population an element from that country which still persists in the villages." There are very large contingents from the Mediterranean countries, especially Armenia, Greece and Italy . . . Turkoman settlements ... a number of Persians and a fairly large Afghan colony . . . Motawila ... long settled immigrants from Persia ... tribes of Kurds ... German "Templar" colonies ... a Bosnian colony ... and the Circassian settlements placed in certain centres ... by the Turkish government in order to keep a restraint on the Bedouin ... a large Algerian element in the population ... still maintain(s) [while] the Sudanese have been reduced in numbers since the beginning of the 20th century.

In the late eighteenth century, 3,000 Albanians recruited by Russians were settled in Acre. The Encyclopaedia Britannica finds "most interesting all the non-Arab communities in the country . . . the Samaritan sect in Nablus (Shechem); a gradually disappearing body" once "settled by the Assyrians to occupy the land left waste by the captivity of the Kingdom of Israel."

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Who they were (what we call them) really doesn't much matter does it?

The people who lived in the land formerly known as Palestine were the people who lived in the land formerly known as Palestine.

And whether or not their land was thriving is also not relevant.

Not unless you believe that people have the right to take over somebody else's land because theire not doing enough with it, of course.

Do you?

Cause if you do, you're not doing enough with the money in your pocket and I can do better things with it so give it to me because you don't deserve to have it.

Does that really sound right to you?

Didn't think so.

Arabian trash stole Jewish and Christian land throughout the Middle East and north Africa.

Jews lived in Judea for 2000 years before the Arabian excrement invaded from the desert of Arabia.
Muslim conquests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Quran states the Holy Land is Jewish land...

Quran 5:20-21...

Remember Moses said to his people: 'O my people! Recall in remembrance the favor of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Anybody that thinks there were some thriving Arab communities in "Palestine " before Zionism is delusional, the Arabs only started settling there after the Jews started returning to cultivate and revive a neglected land.

Who were the inhabitants of "Palestine" before the Zionists?

The disparate peoples recently assumed and purported to be "settled Arab indigenes, for a thousand years" were in fact a "heterogeneous" community with no "Palestinian" identity, and according to an official British historical analysis in 1920, no Arab identity either:

The people west of the Jordan are not Arabs, but only Arabic-speaking. The bulk of the population are fellahin.... In the Gaza district they are mostly of Egyptian origin; elsewhere they are of the most mixed race.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica finds the "population" of Palestine composed of so "widely differing" a group of "inhabitants" -- whose "ethnological affinities" create "early in the 20th century a list of no less than fifty languages" that "it is therefore no easy task to write concisely ... on the ethnology of Palestine." In addition to the "Assyrian, Persian and Roman" elements of ancient times, "the short-lived Egyptian government introduced into the population an element from that country which still persists in the villages." There are very large contingents from the Mediterranean countries, especially Armenia, Greece and Italy . . . Turkoman settlements ... a number of Persians and a fairly large Afghan colony . . . Motawila ... long settled immigrants from Persia ... tribes of Kurds ... German "Templar" colonies ... a Bosnian colony ... and the Circassian settlements placed in certain centres ... by the Turkish government in order to keep a restraint on the Bedouin ... a large Algerian element in the population ... still maintain(s) [while] the Sudanese have been reduced in numbers since the beginning of the 20th century.

In the late eighteenth century, 3,000 Albanians recruited by Russians were settled in Acre. The Encyclopaedia Britannica finds "most interesting all the non-Arab communities in the country . . . the Samaritan sect in Nablus (Shechem); a gradually disappearing body" once "settled by the Assyrians to occupy the land left waste by the captivity of the Kingdom of Israel."

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Who they were (what we call them) really doesn't much matter does it?

The people who lived in the land formerly known as Palestine were the people who lived in the land formerly known as Palestine.

And whether or not their land was thriving is also not relevant.

Not unless you believe that people have the right to take over somebody else's land because theire not doing enough with it, of course.

Do you?

Cause if you do, you're not doing enough with the money in your pocket and I can do better things with it so give it to me because you don't deserve to have it.

Does that really sound right to you?

Didn't think so.

Inhabitants are the permanent residents. They are the people of the place. The name of the people may change. The name of the place may change.

It doesn't matter. They are still the same people and it is still the same place.

 

[georgephillip]

In 1948 when Western powers acting through the UN created the Jewish State of Israel in the heart of the Muslim Middle East, two out of every three human beings within Mandate Palestine were NOT Jews.

One person. One vote = NO Jewish State of Israel.

 

[Marc39]

Anybody that thinks there were some thriving Arab communities in "Palestine " before Zionism is delusional, the Arabs only started settling there after the Jews started returning to cultivate and revive a neglected land.

Who were the inhabitants of "Palestine" before the Zionists?

The disparate peoples recently assumed and purported to be "settled Arab indigenes, for a thousand years" were in fact a "heterogeneous" community with no "Palestinian" identity, and according to an official British historical analysis in 1920, no Arab identity either:

The people west of the Jordan are not Arabs, but only Arabic-speaking. The bulk of the population are fellahin.... In the Gaza district they are mostly of Egyptian origin; elsewhere they are of the most mixed race.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica finds the "population" of Palestine composed of so "widely differing" a group of "inhabitants" -- whose "ethnological affinities" create "early in the 20th century a list of no less than fifty languages" that "it is therefore no easy task to write concisely ... on the ethnology of Palestine." In addition to the "Assyrian, Persian and Roman" elements of ancient times, "the short-lived Egyptian government introduced into the population an element from that country which still persists in the villages." There are very large contingents from the Mediterranean countries, especially Armenia, Greece and Italy . . . Turkoman settlements ... a number of Persians and a fairly large Afghan colony . . . Motawila ... long settled immigrants from Persia ... tribes of Kurds ... German "Templar" colonies ... a Bosnian colony ... and the Circassian settlements placed in certain centres ... by the Turkish government in order to keep a restraint on the Bedouin ... a large Algerian element in the population ... still maintain(s) [while] the Sudanese have been reduced in numbers since the beginning of the 20th century.

In the late eighteenth century, 3,000 Albanians recruited by Russians were settled in Acre. The Encyclopaedia Britannica finds "most interesting all the non-Arab communities in the country . . . the Samaritan sect in Nablus (Shechem); a gradually disappearing body" once "settled by the Assyrians to occupy the land left waste by the captivity of the Kingdom of Israel."

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Who they were (what we call them) really doesn't much matter does it?

The people who lived in the land formerly known as Palestine were the people who lived in the land formerly known as Palestine.

And whether or not their land was thriving is also not relevant.

Not unless you believe that people have the right to take over somebody else's land because theire not doing enough with it, of course.

Do you?

Cause if you do, you're not doing enough with the money in your pocket and I can do better things with it so give it to me because you don't deserve to have it.

Does that really sound right to you?

Didn't think so.

Inhabitants are the permanent residents. They are the people of the place. The name of the people may change. The name of the place may change.

It doesn't matter. They are still the same people and it is still the same place.

Winston Churchill...

The Jews had Palestine before that indigenous population [the Arabs] came in and inhabited it

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Jews-Friendship-Martin-Gilbert/dp/0805078800]Amazon.com: Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship (9780805078800): Martin Gilbert: Books: Reviews, Prices & more[/ame]



Barack Obama to UN General Assembly (September 23)...

Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people.
The slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance -- it's injustice

Remarks by the President to the United Nations General Assembly | The White House

League of Nations...

Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country

The Avalon Project : The Palestine Mandate


Quran 5:20-21...

Remember Moses said to his people: 'O my people! Recall in remembrance the favor of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.

 

[Jroc]

Israel did not exist before 1948. Palestine did. That simple fact alone tells you were justice lies in this matter!**

“The population of Palestine, predominantly agricultural, was about 690,000 in 1914, 535,000 Muslims; 70,000 Christians, most of whom were Arabs; and 85,000 Jews." (Encyclopaedia Britannica).**

There was no substantial Jewish population until after ww2 when Jews were 'imported'. Often wealthy Zionists financed them. Wealthy Zionists who incidentally, decided to remain were they where!**

The Chinese have used similar tactics, massive immigration, to subjugate Tibet, a similar crime against humanity.**

Nope..."Palesitne" has never existed so I din't know what you mean genus.. Get you're facts straight The "palestine" you're talking about included Jordan, Jerusalem has had a Jewish majority since the mid 1800's