What makes ANY Arab “Palestinian”?
90 percent of so-called Palestinians came from somewhere else—Egypt (like Yasir Arafat), Syria, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, etc.
In the days of the Ottoman Empire, much of what today is called Israel/Palestine was unpopulated. It was only after the Jews and British came, post 1918, that there was jobs for them, so they then flocked to the area.
I remember reading one theory, that the real reason they hate Israel is that it inhibits the mobility that Arabs traditionally enjoyed. They could move on a whim all the way to Libya, and then later move to Syria just as abruptly. That’s what the “refugees” were doing in 1948, moving out of the neighborhood, so that Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Transjordan could finish destroying the new Jooo! state, and then they could move back in and enjoy the fruits of Jewish investment and labor. Just another semi-nomadic excursion. With Israel blocking the passage between the Med and the Red Sea, they can’t move like that anymore, and the countries to which they had moved to wait out the bloodbath in 1948 have been withholding the traditional Arab hospitality, too, especially 71 years later. It’s all because of Israel. Boo freakin’ hoo.