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Ancient Jewish history Ping.
The area that is now around Petra was Edom before the 2nd century BC. The Edomites were Semites similar to the Israelites or Arabs
When they were conquered by the Maccabees, they were converted forcibly (the house of Herod was Idumean) and assimilated with the Judaic population (not too difficult as they were ethnically kin and their languages must have been inter-intelligible.
When they moved into Israel, their lands were taken by Semites (Nabateans) from southern Arabia
What is now Israel-Jordan was with a mix of Judaics, Greeks, Romans, Idumeans etc. etc.
With the Bar-kochkba revolt, the Jews were banished from Jerusalem, the Jewish converts stayed in Israel along with Arab, Idumean, Greek etc. converts (and I mean converts from Judaism to whatever)
Over the Christian centuries, the population would have been a mix of multiple ethnicities
Under the Ottomans this was a neglected backwater with a population in the thousands, with the irrigation untended and so reverting to desert
When the Jews came back, they made the desert blossom and so attracted Arab or Egyptian workers
The present day "Palestinian" is a mix of all of these ethnicities -- with definitely some Jewish blood amongst them as well as Samaritan, Idumean, Greek, Roman, Arab, Egyptian, Syrian etc.
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