Posted on 07/21/2026 3:36:56 AM PDT by Words Matter
To confused radical Peter Beinart: Upto 1948, Jews and Arabs were termed "Palestinian", for the geography. It's not a "religion" nor an "ethnicity."
Beinart = deceiving terminology:
"palestinians and Jews" he wrote.
Instead of correctly:
Arabs and Jews,
or Israelis/Arabs,
or Israelis/Palestinians,
or Jews and Muslims.
(Arab immigrants).
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When and How the Arabs and Muslims Immigrated to the Land of Israel—Period of British Rule, 1918–1948: Volume Two.
https://books.google.com/books?id=zQA8EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Senior Hamas Official: Palestinians Don’t Come from Palestine.
By Aryeh Savir / Tazpit News Agency.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/05/07/senior-hamas-official-certain-palestinians-from-egypt-yemen-and-saudi-arabia-not-israel/
What Palestinian Surnames Reveal About Where They Really Came From
Behind the Narrative 📣
Jun 02, 2026
https://behindthenarrative7.substack.com/p/what-palestinian-surnames-reveal
Goebbels.
Yes .
“palestinian” SURNAMES:
Al-Masri: The Egyptian.
Awad: Lebanon, Syria.
Al-Halabi: from Halab, the Arabic name for Aleppo in northern Syria.
Al-Hourani: from the Houran plateau of southern Syria, one of the most documented sources of Arab migration into the region during the British Mandate period.
Al-Shami: literally “the Syrian,” or “the one from Damascus.”
Al-Yamani: from Yemen.
Al-Hijazi: from the Hijaz region of western Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islam itself.
Al-Mughrabi: the North African.
Al-Lubnani and Al-Tarabulsi: from Lebanon and Tripoli.
Al-Iraqi, Al-Baghdadi, Al-Tikriti: from Iraq, from Baghdad, from Tikrit.
Al-Ifranji means the Frank. The European.
Common knowledge for those who read.
Michiganders live in the state of Michigan and sometimes they’re from “Palestine”.
i just read a dissertation on the biblical solar calendar/Enoch regarding Hasmonean rule long before Romans dubbed Judea Syria-Palestina - and it used term Palestine freely. so much ignorance.
Do note that many of the non-Jewish inhabitants of the region have Jewish and Samaritan ancestry in large numbers. The “Arab” genetic impact is relatively small.
These are more properly “Arabized people from the southern Levant”
The Hasmoneans called their kingdom Judea.
I don’t think it corresponded to the later Syria Palaestina
Though I need to mention that genetic mapping shows that “Palestinian”Christians often retain a higher, more isolated percentage of ancient Levantine components, whereas the Muslims frequently display marginally more genetic admixture, including historical inputs from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa.
“Palestinians” and Jews (such as Sephardic and Mizrahi groups) are genetically very close, sharing a substantial portion of their gene pool. Y-chromosome studies have shown that up to 70% to 82% of Palestinian and Jewish male lineages belong to the same chromosome pool.
The Egyptian, Arab etc genetic origins are closer to 5% among Christians and closer to 20% for Muslims. There are of course outliers
that’s my point. the writer referred to the region as Palestine throughout - major anachronism - and it is published that way.
Go down about 30% to see the 1914 Ottoman census table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
WIKI
According to a Jewish Agency survey, 77% of Palestinian population growth in Palestine between 1914 and 1938, during which the Palestinian population doubled, was due to natural increase, while 23% was due to immigration. Arab immigration was primarily from Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt (all countries that bordered Palestine).[135]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
Palestine is a city in Texas.
I remember when it was Palestinian Arab or Palestinian Jew. There were distinctions. It was Arafat who coined the term as a people allegedly persecuted by Jews.
Yea. I remember failing Butigeg
And, ironically, Arafat was Egyptian. The most “palestinian” icon.
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