Of course the Palestinians are descendants of the people that have always lived there. Converting to the religion of the rulers, especially when it was the law to worship the state religion (Christianity) in the case of Byzantine Palestine, or convenience in the case of Islam, doesn't change the ethnicity of the people. Do you think that for some strange reason Palestine is different from any other area of the world that has seen rulers change?
How can the Pal'stanians (an invented people) be the descendants of people who have always lived there when varying groups of different ethnicities and religions (some of which had come and gone), have lived there?
Because the Palestinians are not an invented people and are the descendants of the people that have always lived in Palestine. The different elites that ruled Palestine did not change the ethnicity of the people. It resulted in conversion to other religions, the first conversion was to Christianity. The people did not magically become Byzantine Romans when they converted, by force, to Christianity. LOL
The Pal'istanians certainly are an invented people. Invented in 1967 by Yassir "I'm Egyptian" Arafat. The different Arab and Turk invaders / colonizers certainly did change the ethnicity of the people.
Do you know what ethnicity means? LOL.
The Romans, Arabians, Persians, European Crusaders, Mamluks and Ottomans were not colonial settlers, they were rulers. They did not change the ethnicity of the people.
Why do you insist on looking the fool. In 1922 the Palestinians were in communication with the British Colonial Office as the People of Palestine. I have all the facts and the sources from the various archives which I can and do provide links to. You will always look the fool when you dispute the facts I present.
From 1922.
"PALESTINE.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PALESTINE ARAB
DELEGATION AND THE ZIONIST ORGANISATION.
No. 1.
The Palestine Arab Delegation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
HOTEL CECIL,
London, W.C.,
February 21st, 1922.
Sir,
We wish to express our thanks to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for his courtesy in allowing us to see the draft of a proposed Palestine Order in Council embodying a scheme of Government for Palestine, and to discuss the same in our capacity of representatives of the Arab People of Palestine.
We would, therefore, submit the following observations:—
Whilst the position in Palestine is, as it stands to-day, with the British Government holding authority by an occupying force, and using that authority to impose upon the people against their wishes a great immigration of alien Jews, many of them of a Bolshevik revolutionary type, no constitution which would fall short of giving the
People of Palestine full control of their own affairs could be acceptable.
If the British Government would revise their present policy in Palestine, end the Zionist
con-dominium, put a stop to all alien immigration and grant the
People of Palestine — who by Right and Experience are the best judges of what is good and bad to their country — Executive and Legislative powers, the terms of a constitution could be discussed in a different atmosphere. If to-day the People of Palestine assented to any constitution which fell short of giving them full control of their own affairs they would be in the position of agreeing to an instrument of Government which might, and probably would, be used to smother their national life under a flood of alien immigration."
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