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And imbedded here, are a couple of the arguments the Palestinians use.
(COMMENT)I see "selfish" intent in those who seek to disenfranchise a people by insisting they are "invaders" and by implication - that they have no rights to the region even though they have been there for centuries.
The indigenous people of Palestine were not just the Jews. They included Muslims and Christians who descended from people that predated the arrival of Islam. Yet people keep insisting that they are "squatters", "invaders". They are as indigenous as the Jews. That means they have rights there.
The original intent by the Allied Powers invested with the rights and title surrendered by the Ottoman and Turks, was that Jewish Immigrants and the Arab inhabitants would somehow live together. The Allied Powers in 1916 thru 1920 did not grasp the Incompatibility of temperament (“not able to live in harmonious or agreeable combination") that would reveal itself and demonstrate that the cultures are diametrically opposed (characterized by opposite extremes) and hardily resistant to assimilation. The Mandatory drove this point home twice when the British Foreign Secretary in a report (18th February 1947) to the House of Commons that:
“His Majesty’s Government have …been faced with an irreconcilable conflict of principles. There are in Palestine about 1,200,000 Arabs and 600,000 Jews. For the Jews the essential point of principle is the creation of sovereign Jewish State. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine.You must be careful to understand the twist behind the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The Arab Palestinians want to apply law and rights that did not exist in the period. Remember. all the way up to May 1945, the deportation of Jews from Nazi-occupied territories all across Europe --- transporting Jews to the extermination camps in Poland begins. There were no Human Rights laws, or protocols of self-determination.
"We shall explain that the Mandate has proved to be unworkable in practice, and that the obligations undertaken to the two communities in Palestine have been shown to be irreconcilable."
(COMMENT)OK, but none of that had anything to do with the creation of Israel.
I has everything to do with the immigration, naturalization, and the establishment of sovereignty. It is the original --- "why" --- that the Allied Powers (early on in the century) even entertained the idea --- and --- gave serious consideration to the establishment of theJewish National Home. And, it became even almost a categorical imperative (the necessity to bring into existence an obligation on the part of the Allied Powers to carry out the relevant action) after WWII and the assessment of the European countries that accepted Anti-Jewish policies imposed upon NAZI occupied Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and in other European countries under NAZI domination.
There was no reason to expect that any European Leadership could be trusted in the future to come to the aid of the Jewish People. A solution had to be found in which the Jewish People had a safe haven that they could defend against anti-Jewish activities under the color of law.
"The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner most notable for a single voyage in 1939, in which her captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for 908 Jewish refugees from Germany, after they were denied entry to Cuba and the United States, until finally accepted in various European countries, which were later engulfed in World War II. Historians have estimated that, after their return to Europe, approximately a quarter of the ship's passengers died in death camps." From: Wikipedia
The existence of the State of Israel is a culmination of a series of events that gradually build the conditions for the Declarations of Independence. But the reasons behind the General Assemble of 1947 adopted the "Steps Preparatory to Independence" are numerous and varied. And the fact that the leadership of the Arab League so blatantly initiated a multinational attack on Israel in 1948 to circumvent the intentions of the General Assembly, was a very common occurrence in the history of Jewish People; not two years before, subjected to NAZI extermination camps, concentration camps, and forced labor camps.
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Rocco, I think we are arguing two completely different things.
Are or are not the Palestinians of today descendents of a mix of indiginous peoples who converted to Christianity and Islam when those religions dominated the territory, and new migrants from surrounding areas? That is what people are trying to deny - the claim that the only real Palestinians were Jews is false.
Are not the Jews in today's Israel a combination of the descendents of a mix of indiginous peoples who retained their faith and immigrants from around the world who maintained their faith in the diaspora but also had to marry outside of their ethnic group in order to survive the diaspora as a people?
And Rocco - what is the purpose in claiming that Muslim Palestinians are not indiginous? Is it the same purpose as claiming that Jews are not indiginous? An effort to disenfranchise the legitimate rights of a native people?
NO they are recent arrivals from wholly Islamic nations in the vicinity of Palestine. This is shown when the UN had to alter existing rules for refugee status so that the arab muslim illegal immigrants could be covered. Even then they had to create a new UN body to provide for their welfare because the majority of "Palestinians" had less than two years residency in Palestine.
Some of them are, just like some of the Jews are immigrants from Europe.
The geneticists find that the majority of Jews have a common ancestor that the Palestinians don't, they have even narrowed them down to individual tribes the DNA is that positive and foolproof.
The purpose is to show the extent that anti Jews and Nazis will go to when it comes to demonising the Jews and denying them their rights under international laws. The muslims are not a native people, they themselves claim to be Syrian and Egyptian before being Palestinian.
Yet those same genetics show close ties between Jews and "Palestinians".
Blood brothers: Palestinians and Jews share genetic roots
The Muslims are descendents of indiginous people who converted to Islam and migrants from surrounding areas.
The only purpose here is to show the extent people like you will go to to demonize people who have lived in the area for centuries. I'm not demonizing anyone. I freely agree that the indiginous population comprises Jews, Christians and Muslims.
The only reason to say otherwise in the face of history is to try to disenfranchise one or the other - is that what you are doing?
And the arab muslims say they are Syrians and Egyptians. The studies done show that in the 1800's the arab muslims were nomadic and travelled around the whole area. They were not static and could be working in Hebron today and Homs next week. So are they Palestinian or Iranian ? The tests come up with an 85% to 90% match which is the same for man and the great apes down to man and a banana, so how does this mean that Palestinians and Jews are closely related. Look at the studies presented by monte that claim the whole of the European Jewish community is descended from just 4 females. That would mean the inter-breeding would have created genetic mutations and a survival rate of today of less than 10%.
You want to look at demonization then look no further than team palestine's attacks on the Jews around their ancestry and history, with the claims of fictional groups being the Ashkenazi Jews of today.
Some were but many were settled farmers. The studies done refer to the Beduoin. The word "Arab" was used to classify a broad range of people.
To listen to you the only inhabitants of that region until 1960 were Jews and that's a blatant falsehood.