[muawiyah]

DNA tests show a different situation. The Jews, per se, are not terribly different from the Arabs in the area. Even the Iranian people seem to be of the same genetic background as the Arabs ~ but they speak Indo European languages due to some obscure pre-historic ancient conquest.

At the same time there are "others" living in the midst of the Arabic sea who really are different.

The Druze, for example, have an anomalously high percentage of the "X Factor" found mostly in the Sa'ami, Chippawa and Berber people.

There are some areas with substantial Central Asian backgrounds.

Whatever was believed in 1977 about the ethno-history and genetic background of Middle Eastern populations has to be set aside now in the light of better information.

[SJackson]

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[girlangler]

Interesting reading like this is what led me to ask you to place me on your ping list.

Thanks for posting this. I am emailing this one to lots of folks.

[onedoug]

philistinians

[ncfool]

You are correct. Jordan was created to be the Palestine state. I think the British called it Trans-jordan. Very well articulated. Especially where you state the whole world even the Israeli’s have not bought into the Myth of the Palestinians.

[skinkinthegrass]

thanks, for the post/thread...this post, only confirms my belief (held for >25 years) this is Arab nationalism / cloaked in religion (Radical Islam)....the Arab Governments in 1948 "encouraged" the PaliArabs' to leave ALL their possessions/property, while their *smirk* "Arab Brothers, wiped-out" the Israeli....history (so far) has prove them wrong.....

what Arabs have not achieved in war, the Socialist-Marxist Jews may achieve "in peace"....the complete destruction of the Israeli State.

[goldstategop]

The Hebrew word "Ploshtim" - means invader. The ancient Phillistines were a people from the islands - probably bronze age Greeks. They had nothing in common with the Jews and as fast as they settled in Eretz Israel, they later disappeared from history without a recorded trace. Nothing is known of their exact identity, culture and language. There never was and will be be a "Palestine" in history. The Roman Emperor Hadrian may have thwarted Jewish efforts to regain national independence but even he could only give the land the Romans occupied the name of a long extinct people. And so it is the present day Palestinians have no original, authentic identity of their own.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Vigilanteman]

Excellent article and quite correct as well. Syria and Egypt actually were merged into one country called the United Arab Republic from 1958 to 1961. Iraq tried to revive the entity as a three member UAR before the six day war. The myth of Palestine dates from that war.

[Biggirl]

All the British and latter the UN was doing was simply allowing the Jewish people to go home to their homeland. Thus they helped put into reality what Ezekial Chapter 37 spoke about, the famous valley of the dry bones which is said to be about the restoration of the Isreal homeland.

[BroJoeK]

"“The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people"

Thanks for an interesting post. I'm certain a little research could uncover more such quotes.

Of course there was no Arab "Palestine" before recent years. At different times the area was divided up into parts of different provinces of the old Ottoman Turk Empire. Most of it belonged to the province of Syria, but other parts were in other provinces.

Israel exists as a country today because of the British victory in W.W.I, and the associated Balfour Declaration. Note again the unequivocal words:

Balfour Declaration

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object,

it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

[YankeeinOkieville]

mark for future reference - “faked Pali”