"Palestinians" as a nation are a tactical invention. Or have you not read what Arafat, Mohsen, Hamas' Fathi Hamad and King Hussein have said.
2000 years ago the land was called "Judaea"--land of the Jews. Syria Falastina is its genocidal post-rebellion Roman name.
And most "indigenous" Arabs given refugee status by UNRWA in 1948 got it if they lived in the land only since June 1946--two years!
British and French mandate officials documented how many impoverished Arabs had immigrated illegally to mandatory Palestine, attracted by employment opportunities generated by Jewish investment: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/israel-vs-palestine-which-side-needs-delusion-demolition-99a0ebfefd25
But the best reply to this nonsense and their falsification of history is a joke:
“Sharon sits down with Arafat at the beginning of negotiations regarding the resolution of the conflict. Sharon requests that he be allowed to begin with a story. Arafat replies, “Of course.”
Sharon begins his story: “Years before the Israelites came to the Promised Land and settled here, Moses led them for 40 years through the desert. The Israelites began complaining that they were thirsty and, lo and behold, a miracle occurred and a stream appeared before them. They drank their fill and then decided to take advantage of the stream to do some bathing — including Moses. When Moses came out of the water, he found that all his clothing was missing.
“Who took my clothes?” Moses asked those around him.
“It was the Palestinians,” replied the Israelites — “
“Wait a minute,” objected Arafat immediately, “there were no Palestinians during the time of Moses!”
“All right,” replies Sharon, “Now that we’ve got that settled, let’s begin our negotiations.” (URL: https://able2know.org/topic/57916-1)
This is how to do a proper title search in real estate.
3. Israel, “White Colonial Settler” Apartheid State?
Another fact-free cliche from the map above that ignores:
2/3 of Israel is Sephardic, Jews from other Middle Eastern countries, more than 700000 of whom were expelled and whose property was seized. They’re no whiter than their Arab cousins. Iraq’s 150000 Jews, living there since Babylonian times, were targeted by the Farhud, an anti-British, pro-Nazi pogrom that killed from 780–1000 Jews, in June 1941.
19th century Ottoman Palestine was empty and desolate after centuries of parasitic mismanagement by absentee effendi landlords. What Mark Twain saw: “One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see ten humans.” “Nazareth is forlorn … Jericho the accursed lies in a moldering ruin today…“There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere…. [Jezreel]….not a solitary village throughout its whole extent-not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings….Come to Galilee for that (solitude)… these unpeopled deserts, these rusty mounds of barrenness…We never saw a human being on the whole route….” (https://freerepublic.com/focus/fr/604628/posts)
1867: The Ottoman Sultan allows non-Muslims to buy land anywhere in the Empire but the Mecca and Medina areas. This minor change in property law opens the door to immigration by Jews wishing to return to their ancient homeland just as they begin to experience more persecution in Eastern Europe.
1857, 1859: The British Consul’s reports on Palestine in 1857 and 1859 were similar to Twain’s: “The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population…The Muslims of Jerusalem do not exceed a fourth of the entire population.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ijyyy-Mowk, https://freerepublic.com/focus/fr/604628/posts)
1878: The Ottomans launch a resettlement policy to bring foreign Muslims to “Palestine,” mainly Algerians and Circassians. Palestinian settlement “From Time Immemorial” now dates from 70 years before Israel’s creation. But you can date it much more recently…..
The real origins of the “Palestinians”, from the British mandatory government’s 1946 survey:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)#/media/File:Survey_of_Palestine_Page_211.jpg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region) Britain’s anti-Jewish immigration policy is clear here: Trans-Jordan was the sieve through which Arabs “temporarily” entered Palestine
