[Cronos]

When Palestine became Islamic around the year 1200 we begin to see some foreign admixture. On the coastal plain the foreign admixture is usually Egyptian. In West Bank near Hebron and Jerusalem the foreign admixture is probably Bedouin. In the North near Tzfat the foreign admixture is minimal and believed to be Kurdish. On balance it is fair to state that Palestinians are in fact ethnically Israelite. The divide between the Israelis and Palestinians is on religious and linguistic lines only.

[af_vet_1981]

When Palestine became Islamic around the year 1200 we begin to see some foreign admixture.

Let's stop there and get the dates correct first.

The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate against the Byzantine Empire in the year 636–637/38. It began when the Rashidun army, under the command of Abu Ubayda, besieged Jerusalem beginning in November 636. After six months, Patriarch Sophronius agreed to surrender, on condition that he submit only to the caliph. In 637 or 638, Caliph Umar (r. 634–644) traveled to Jerusalem in person to receive the submission of the city. The patriarch thus surrendered to him.

The Muslim conquest of the city solidified Arab control over Palestine, which would not again be threatened until the First Crusade in 1099.

[logi_cal869]

The divide between the Israelis and Palestinians is on religious and linguistic lines only.