[RLK]

The Myth Of The Palestinian People

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An excellent and polished piece of writing. However, the Pa;estinians aren't going to believe it. Neither is anyone else with a knowledge of history. In 1945 there were two people of arabic descent living in Palestine for every Jew. Vall these people what you want, but they sure as hell weren't Puerto Ricans. In about 1920 the Jewish population was about 15% or less as recognized by the Jews. This is an admission that there were other people in the area.

[Dallas]

Bedowins were not residents of Palestine.

So your equation doesn't apply.

[dennisw]

Look to the year 1870 when the Zionists started coming in numbers. Palestine was desolate and under populated. The part of Palestine that these Jews settled is pretty much the Israel of today. Maybe 200,000 Muslims lived there. 

These Zionists came to an empty, underdeveloped land. As the Jews came so did the Arabs. These "Palestinians" are mostly immigrants just like the Jews. They came from other Arab area of the MidEast, pulled in by the projects of the Jewish immigrants. Who bought cheap swamp land and drained and developed it. Jews bought marginal land and made something of it that the backward Arabs could not.

[Neophyte]

Call these people what you want, but they sure as hell weren't Puerto Ricans.

There are places in the US where in recent years Puerto Ricans came to outnumber native Americans approximately by the same rate as (in 1915) Arab settlers came to outnumber Jews in the Land of Israel.

Does it make Puerto Ricans "indigenous" for these places and does it entitle them to a sovereign state there?

[Optimist]

As i read the article, it makes no case for the presence or lack of Jewish settlers, but rather the lack of an indigeneous population (aka as "the Palestinians"). Israel has claimed an historical presence to which they are returning to claim.
Palestinian groups, however, claim to be indigenous which this article refutes with census and first-hand independent accounts.

Although I have seen many cases on freeper threads for the historical right to this land by "Palestinians", that is not their primary claim (at least until they have desecrated all non-muslim religious sites by building on top of them to create a new history)
(sorrow about the flamunition)