montelatici: Israel and Jerusalem have not always belonged to the Jews. The Phoenician Caanites founded and ruled Jerusalem from about 2,500 BC to 1,000 BC when the Jews invaded and conquered the city. So the Jews ruled the city for less than 1,000 years.
50_RiaL: The Jews' hold on the city is more than double that of the Arabs, who last held it in 1071 CE. (There has been a Jewish majority in Jerusalem since before the middle of the 19th Century.)
montelatici: Canaanite Phoenician Jerusalem, Urushalim, The City Founded by Shalem, Phoenician God of Dusk
The Encyclopedia Britanica pay per view, I certainly am not going to pay money to educate you ignoramuses. But, it won't be any different than Wiki. 99% of Middle East historians will tell you the same thing, that the Palestinians are for the most part converted Christians. No one questions it except Zionutters. Even historians like this Katz guy, who is Jewish, write the same thing:
50_RiaL: 99%, eh, guy? That's quite a stretch. You're readin' the wrong historians. Harvard-trained historian Howard M. Sachar writes that from 1922-1946, 100,000 Arabs entered the country from the surrounding lands. Winston Churchill added that, "[d]espite the fact that they were never persecuted, masses of Arabs poured into the country and multiplied until the Arab population grew more than what all of world Jewry could add to the Jewish population."
montelatici: Native Population almost wholly descended from Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity, and later Islam, not Arab in origin
50_RiaL: Only a few Jews converted. The 4th Century-born Saint Jerome who spent time in the Holy Land writes about the sorry state of the Jews there. In the 5th Century CE, Synagogues and Jewish enclaves were burnt in pogroms at the instigation of Syrian Bishop Barsauma. In the 7th Century CE, shortly before the Arab Muslim invasion, a coalition of Jews within and outside the Holy Land revolted against the Byzantines. Muslim writings 'fess up to the fact that in the 7th Century CE, after Mohammad's death, Caliph Umar expelled the Jews of Khaibar in northern Arabia to -- yeah, you guessed it -- the Holy Land.
montelatici: In Palestine the "small" number of Arab invaders who had been imported by the Arabian conquerors were wiped out by disease. Thus the "myth" of the "Palestinian Arab" descending "from the Arab conquerors" appears to be factually incorrect for all but perhaps a few. Supporting Hogarth, Hitti, and Lewis, the Reverend Parkes found that
"During the first century after the Arab conquest the caliph and governors of Syria and The Land [Palestine] ruled almost entirely over Christian and Jewish subjects. Apart from the bedouin [nomads], in the earliest days the only Arabs west of the Jordan (not all of whom were themselves Muslims) were the garnisons... "
50_RiaL: Unbeknownst to you, you're makin' an argument for the Israeli side. Israel has been sayin' that the bulk of the Arabs who are now callin' themselves "Palestinians" are recent arrivals and, is also in line with what Hamas Interior Minister, Fathi Hamad said in 2012: that half of Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half Saudis.
montelatici: The "vast majority" remaining in Palestine was "native Christians," of "mixed origin ... carelessly known as Christian Arabs."
Native Population almost wholly descended from Jews who had been forcibly converted
50_RiaL: Are you sayin' the cairene Arafat was Jewish?