[fire and forget]

As interesting as it might be, it is fair to appreciate that Egypt had no native born ethnic Egyptian ruler for aobut 2.5 millenia.This does not diminish the fact that the land of Egypt is and has been the homeland of the Egyptians by any objective criteria. American presidents have come from a variety of ethnicities. That doesn't mean that the land became the homeland of different folks with every successive presidency.

[muawiyah]

The article does, however, do exactly all those things.

[muawiyah]

Arab speaking people have been living in the Levant for several millenia. Arab speaking people have been living in Jerusalem since Christianity was made lawful. Arab speaking people who are Christians actually control most of the buildings that Christian pilgrims go to Jerusalem and Bethlehem to see!

They didn't move to Palestine out of spite, and it wasn't simply a desolate wasteland since the days of Bar Kochba.

The primary posting in this thread perpetrates a false image of Palestine, Israel and the Levant. That image is then used to deligitimize the right of the non-Israeli population to live there, or to have any rights - that includes the Syrian Orthodox priests who have been around since the foundations of Christianity. That should demonstrate conclusively that the objective is not necessarily to deligitimize Yasser Arafat and the PA, or the Westbankers, but to deligitimize both Christianity and Islam from a presence in Israel or adjacent territories.

[mamelukesabre]

There are no egyptians left. they are all ARABS. the arab invaders replaces all of them........Unless you count the copts. And the copts are largely arabs as well(genetically speaking)