Palestinian Origin

First of all, all these distinctions we're making between people are arbitrary, they're all in our head. Nationality is part of a mind game to divide people so they can fight amongst each other instead of uniting against the currently unseen power elite exploiting us all.

Speaking of uniting against a common opposition, that is how Palestinians became associated with their nation.
When outsiders began surging into the land north of Syria, West of Jordan, Surrounded by Jerusalem (however you want to look at it) the people already living there started to identify as Palestinians. They decided to fight for a nation THEY envisioned, just as Theodore Herzl envisioned Israel.( http://www.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/history/tr.../ )
I don't care about the past references to Palestine or Israel, because what matters is peoples perceptions. And millions of people say "I'm Palestinian". Maybe you want them to say "west bank" or "Gaza" but that's not what they all call themselves.
You are fostering the idea that identifying as a Palestinian is illegitimate and that is VERY offensive. Doing such a thing is no different than claiming Israel doesn't exist.

Both notions are ridiculous of course because you cannot destroy ideas that are well established in people psyche. Afterall, what is a nation other than an idea, a perception?

How about we agree that we are all human beings? Including Palestinians, "Datamined".

Oh yeah, and saying something is stupid isn't an argument and hurts your credibility. So does spreading ignorance.

Did anyone else flag?

There are individuals here who through their ignorance and Intolerance seek to change what has been History and is Recorded History! To a grey ball of wax. Truth does not apply to these individuals. They spout out their misinformation and lies to recreate History to their own Political Agenda. They are the "Apostates", I have seen time after time. They are given the facts, the Data, the Resources yet they still deny, offering no facts or anything to back up their Iies and their decieteful practice of Perversion of the Truth. They speak it, therefore it is Truth. I say , Shit, or get off Yer Throne Perverts of the Truth!

Yeah, I am tired of the Gaza saga, hurry up Israel and finish it. I am tired of seeing Americans fighting about it also.

Data 10 Detractors -8, So data, how come you know so much?

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when i turned 8, i moved out of my grandparents house where i used to live. i tried moving back in when i was 24 but my cousin had moved in my room. so, i tried kicking him out because it was my room 16 years ago but he got all huffy puffy with me and had to get my dad involved. he settled to move to the living room because, you know, we're cousins and my mom is awesome. plus, i'm older. we agreed to share the room eventually as soon as he finishes school.

i still say it's my room cuz i was there before him. (plus, there's a corner there i love to whimper in and i miss it). now that i'm 28 and don't pay any rent, i'd be dumb to move out but he finished school and wants to move back in. i say, 'fuck that!' he's lucky to have the living room! but, now i need my own living room. the basement is open though. it's cold and damp but he'd be lucky to have that!

so i started locking him out of the bathroom and would turn off the refrigerator at night so his food spoils. he should move out soon! hehe.

you know what he did? he called my dad and complained, but guess what? he said 'tough! deal with it on your own.' haha!

now he wants me out of MY room because of an agreement?? so what if he's had it the past 16 years. i was there before! the asshole had the audacity to bring his college friends over. he says they're only over to watch the game but i know they're plotting to jump me.

so i killed his dog. he should move out soon.

PHONY PALI CLAIMS TO JUSTIFY ARAB LAND GRABS HAVE BEEN DISCREDITED AS LIES AGES AGO

Palestinian claims to be related to the Canaanites are a recent phenomenon and contrary to historical evidence. The Canaanites disappeared from the face of the earth three millennia ago, and no one knows if any of their descendants survived or, if they did, who they would be.

Sherif Hussein, the guardian of the Islamic Holy Places in Arabia, said the Palestinians' ancestors had only been in the area for 1,000 years.

Even the Palestinians themselves have acknowledged their association with the region came long after the Jews. In testimony before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, for example, they claimed a connection to Palestine of more than 1,000 years, dating back no further than the conquest of Muhammad's followers in the 7th century. And that claim is also dubious.

Over the last 2,000 years, there have been massive invasions that killed off most of the local people (e.g., the Crusades), migrations, the plague, and other manmade or natural disasters. The entire local population was replaced many times over. During the British mandate alone, more than 100,000 Arabs emigrated from neighboring countries and are today considered Palestinians.

By contrast, no serious historian questions the more than 3,000-year-old Jewish connection to the Land of Israel, or the modern Jewish people's relation to the ancient Hebrews.

@asherp -- "Palestine" was a roman term from 2000 years ago. It was a geographical term to refer to that area -- israel and jordan -- when the jews were the majority. They used that term rather than "israel" or "judea" to try and remove any jewishness to the area. Again, it was not a political entity, just a geographical area.

If you think "Palestine" was a country, then tell me who was the leader of the ficticious country of "Palestine" in 1900?

Up until the 1960's "Palestinian" referred to Jews living in Palestine. Google it. The "Jerusalem Post" used to be called the "Palestine Post". Other jewish organizations were: Palestine Philharmonic, Palestine National Fund, and Palestine Legion.

In the 1960's, the Soviet Union and the Arab League invented the concept of "Palestinians" to further divide Israel towards their goal of destroying it.

This is bullshit. I have a map from 1900 that shows Palestine where "Israel" is.

Vierotchka is correct. . but to elaborite a bit more We are all common animals, We live and die just like any other animal, We are of a commonality, both animals and humans. Just because the human species have a mutated brain that has the ability to operate just like a biological computer, we are still animals. Religion and mythology came and filled everyones head with foolishness in the primordial times because they did not have the answers to explain the laws of the universe. I would suggest that if we could obliterate religions of all kinds, We the people may just be able to find some common grounds to exist together instead of continously trying to kill each other off.

Lies, lies, lies.

The Palestinians are the descendants of the Canaanites whose lands the Hebrews stole through slaughter and genocide three and a bit thousand years ago, and did so again in 1948.

"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel".

- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -

"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people".

- Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat

"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it".

- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -

"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not".

- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 -

"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria".

- Representant of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 -