Naomi Wolf 41 mins · Edited · OMG I promise last post of the night -- read all the way down and we need of course a second source: it seems Arab Palestinians are descended from -- Old and New Testament era Jews ….the Muslim fellaheen in Palestine in modern times are descendants of those Christians who were the descendants of Jews*, and had turned to Islam before the Crusaders’ conquest. Samar Anqud Ali Kaye: Many respected historians have long known that the majority of Palestinians are descended from Canaanites. Heres a link with a few quotations from various scholars discussing this subject: https://cintayati.wordpress/.../history-of-canaan.../ What do scholars say of Palestinians? ‘Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture.’ Dowty, Alan (2008). Israel/Palestine. London, UK: Polity. p. 221. ‘Palestinians are an indigenous people who either live in, or originate from, historical Palestine. Although the Muslims guaranteed security and allowed religious freedom to all inhabitants of the region, the majority converted to Islam and adopte d Arab culture.’ Bassam Abu-Libdeh, Peter D. Turnpenny, and Ahmed Teebi, ‘Genetic Disease in Palestine and Palestinians,’ in Dhavendra Kuma (ed.) Genomics and Health in the Developing World, OUP 2012 pp.700-711, p.700. “[being of] Canaanite origin, Palestinians have priority; their descendants have continued to live there, which gives them continuity; and (except for the 800,000 dispossessed refugees of 1948 – as determined by Israeli officials at the time, not including the hundreds of thousands subsequently expelled), they are still living there, which gives them present possession. Thus we see that on purely statistical grounds they have a proven legal right to their land.” late Prof. Ilene Beatty, highly renowned historian/anthropologist and specialist on the “Holy Land” in Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan, 1957. The Arab population of Palestine was native in all the senses of the word, and their roots in Palestine can be traced back at least 40 centuries. Professor Maxime Rodinson, Professor of law at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Jewess. Israel and the Arabs, 1968. As neither the Byzantines nor the Muslims carried out any large-scale population resettlement projects, the Christians were the offspring of the Jewish and Samaritan farmers who converted to Christianity in the Byzantine period; while the Muslim fellaheen in Palestine in modern times are descendants of those Christians who were the descendants of Jews*, and had turned to Islam before the Crusaders’ conquest. Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine, Cambridge University Press. pp 634-1099. (* not counting or even addressing the majority Gentile population that existed before descendants of ‘Abram’ arrived and afterwards through the millennia until “Israel”was reconstituted in 1948. This author, being Jewish naturally highlights only the Jews who converted, ignoring the overwhelming majority of Gentiles.) Most of the Arab Palestinians were people deeply rooted in what Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (1585-1671), an influential Islamic lawyer from Ramla, defined in the XVII century “Filastin biladuna” (“Palestine our country”); the fact that it was not a separate political and administrative entity did not make al-Ramli’s “Filastin” less real. “State” was a Western concept.
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