Wolverine1984
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The continuity of the Palestinian roots in the land in fact goes back to antiquity.<== Have any proof ? Absorbing or outlasting various conquerors, Palestinians tenaciously tended their ancestral farmlands, whether as freeholders or as tenants and mortgagees, and by the end of World War 11, mostly as unfettered freeholders again. In his study of the history of landholdings in Palestine, Abraham Granott, formerly Managing Director of the Jewish National Fund, admits:
When the kingdom of Byzantium was subjugated by the Arabs, practically the whole of the land belonged to the big proprietors, the Emperor, the municipal authorities, and religious bodies, as churches and so on, while the soil was cultivated by the former owners who had remained on their plots as tenants after the land had passed into the hands of large owners.(1)
Thus the Palestinian farmers expelled by the Zionists in 1948 were the lineal descendants of the most ancient owners of the land. The Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population of Palestine, the descendants of the Philistines and of all the Semitic peoples who have lived in Palestine since the time of the Canaanites. Successive waves of newcomers, such as Philistines from Crete, Semites from Iraq, Romans, Greeks and Arabs came and intermarried with the native stock.
Chapter 2: Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
Are you serious ?
Your source is "http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/" ???
Well I'm sure they will be objective and tell the truth only...
It's a big fat lie , there are a number of posts around here dealing with this issue , and this claim was proven wrong.
Of course it has not been proven wrong. You misquoted my quote. You took a piece out of context.
In order for the Palestinians to not be descendents of all these different people you would have to believe that whenever a territory falls under new rule the entire old population moves out and an entire new population moves in. Of course this does not happen.The Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population of Palestine, the descendants of the Philistines and of all the Semitic peoples who have lived in Palestine since the time of the Canaanites. Successive waves of newcomers, such as Philistines from Crete, Semites from Iraq, Romans, Greeks and Arabs came and intermarried with the native stock.
The vast majority of the people living in mandate Palestine were direct descendents of people who predated the Ottoman Empire. Hundreds of years of Ottoman rule made an insignificant change in Palestine's population.
You probably would not find a pure Canaanite or Philistine but you would be hard pressed to find a Palestinian who does not have any lineage back to the beginning of time.
Where are the genetic studies that proves "Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population of Palestine, the descendants of the Philistines" ?
Because that is the basis of your claim , you are claiming that Palestinians were in Palestine in biblical times even before the Israelites ...
Where is your proof of that ?
You talk about the Ottoman empire , who started out at 1299 and claim that because Arab Palestinians where there at 1299AD they were there also at 1000 BC , that's hardly proof.