Originally posted by Shusha
I disagree with your definition of "native". You seem to imply that those living on the territory are "native" by the fact of their residence. I disagree. In the Americas, for example, those residing on the territory are not natives, but colonists, immigrants and descendants of colonists and immigrants.
The problem is not my definition of native.
The real problem is your inability to come to terms with the fact that the mythological ancestry of ethiopians, Indians and europeans of jewish faith is just that: religious myth.
The arab people who inhabited Palestine when the zionist movement started, in 1880, were the offspring of all the biblical peoples who lived there with the addition of around 15, 20% of immigrants coming from Arabia and a very tiny influx of other peoples, like the Crusaders from Europe, etc, etc... as well as the natural population exchanges that occur in all neighboring regions and countries in the world, like America and Canada/Mexico, China and Mongolia/Russia, South Africa and Zimbabwe/Botswana, Argentina and Chile/Paraguai etc, etc ...
This is the big irony of the entire Israeli/Palestinian conflict:
The real descendants of the ancient Jews who inhabited that region are the same people who are now being confined into ethnic enclaves, murdered, arrested and expelled in the name of Judaism, the religion of their ancestors.
The real "Jews" of Palestine being dehumanized, treated as foreigners in the same historical homeland of their jewish ancestors by a population of converts to Judaism from around the world in the name of the religion of their ancestors.
You can't make this shit up.