Once I explained to my co-workers that Palestinians are actually Jordanians that rose up against their king, and lost, that shut-down the whole conversation. Both of my co-workers are half Jew and didn’t know.
US Jews? A lot of them are unaware of the real deal in the ME. On top of that, a lot of them don’t care. Sad. Glad you informed them.
Yup, the Trans-Jordan thing. Your co-workers are half Jew, and you might want to tell them that Jews living in Palestine were the original Palestinians; the label stolen by the Trans-Jordanian arabs in Palestine. Arab Palestinians is a fiction made up. Plus a huge chunk of Jordan was supposed to go to the Jews, so if anyone needs to reclaim their lands it's the Israeli Jews who should storm Jordan and reclaim it. But Israel is humane, unlike the Arab animals who surround them.