Being Palestinian is an ethnicity not a religion!!!!
This isn't a war on religion. It is a war on an ethnicity.
Sorry but you’re talking absolute rot. If you don’t know or understand what you’re saying, maybe don’t start a thread on MN
If they are an ethic group, why don’t they have their own language? Why are they speaking the language (Arabic) of colonisers and invaders? Because they are the descendants of colonisers and invaders.
At the end of the day Palestinians are Arabs - there is no such thing as a separate Palestinian people. The Gazans are mainly Egyptian (their surnames bear this out). The Israeli Arabs that decided to stay after 1947 had most likely lived on the land for centuries. And the ones who now live under Palestinian Authority rule in the West Bank are made up of peoples who came to the land from all over the Ottoman Empire. Again, you can tell by the surnames. You can also tell by studying Ottoman and British Mandate census accounts and records. It’s all verifiable.
And here’s the thing, because the British Mandate was so well run and there was a good chance a migrant could get employment, there was lots of legal and illegal immigration from Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. Under the Ottomans, the population of Palestine generally was small. Jerusalem, for obvious reasons, was an exception. Palestine as a nation and ‘population’ is relatively recent construct. They didn’t even start calling themselves Palestinians until the mid-ish 60s, it was the Soviet Union that even gave them the idea(seems legit doesn’t it). They are Arabs.
By contrast, the connection between the Jewish people and Israel goes back long before the birth of either Christianity or Islam. Jews created a society there in the days of Joshua, a kingdom in the days of Saul, and a nation with Jerusalem as its capital in the days of King David - more than 3,000 years ago.
Jews are the only people who ever created a nation state there. At all other times in the past 3,000 years it was merely an administrative district in an empire whose centre was elsewhere: the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Alexandrian, Roman and Byzantine empires, the Crusaders of the Holy Roman Empire, the various Muslim empires such as the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Mamluks and Ottomans, and finally the British. Jews are the only people who have maintained a continuous presence in the land. They are its indigenous, original inhabitants.
If Palestinians were really an ethnic group, as you claim, they would have leapt at the chance to achieve their own sovereignty and independence at every opportunity it was offered. Let’s check the history books on this one, shall we shall we:
If Palestinian Arabs were interested in sovereignty they would've volunteered to fight the Ottoman occupation in 1917. They didn't - Jews did.
In fact, during WWI, the British, Who were professional colonisers, sponsored Arab nationalism to weaken their enemy, the Ottoman Empire. The British designed the Palestinian flag. There was no
"Palestinian nationalism" independent of Arab nationalism until the 1920s, when raging antisemite and future Hitler best mate Amin Al-Husseini (the godfather of Palestinian and cousin of one Yasser Arafat) had a little falling out with the rest of his Arab nationalists and decided he wanted to do his own thing.
Palestinian Arabs would've taken the single, unified Palestinian state that was proposed to them in 1937 and 1939. They refused, because they wouldn't accept any Jews in their country.
Palestinian Arabs would've accepted the partition plan in 1947. Instead, they chose to start a genocidal war — two years after the holocaust, by the way — and they lost.
Palestinian Arabs would've worked on state building in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank between 1948-1967. Instead, they claimed those territories weren't actually Palestine. But when Israel captured them in 1967 (the Six Day War, a war that - guess what - was started by the Arabs), they changed their tune and claimed Gaza and the West Bank did in fact belong to them after all.
Palestinian Arabs would've accepted a state in 1979, 1993-2001, 2000, 2005, and 2008. They said no every time and chose murdering Jews instead.
So now you know, please stop lying on the internet. Thanks.