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arabs vs “palestinians”

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024

arabs vs \"palestinians\" perhaps the most important distinction today. before the 1960s, the term \"palestinian\" meant something very different from how people use it today. quite the opposite, actually.

theoretically speaking, it meant anyone living in the ancient land of israel, , regardless of where they were from, their ethnicity, their religion or their politics. practically, though, it was usually a synonym for \"jew\".

in fact, between 1917 and 1948, when the state of israel finally decolonized part of itself from its arab conquerors, the word \"palestinian\" was a synonym for \"zionist\". it meant a jew who believed in their right to live in their ancestral, indiginous homeland in israel. it wasn\'t until decades later that a terrorist organization repurposed the name for their own genocidal ideology. so, in reality, there is a \"palestinian\" history but it\'s not a history of arabs. it\'s just jewish history.

there is a very long history of arabs in israel, though, and it\'s important to understand it. arab traders moved in and out of israel at least as far back as biblical times. they were from the arabian peninsula to the south. that\'s not unexpected because persian, egyptian, indian and even chinese passed through the area. that is why there is so much crossover between hindu and buddhist texts and later christian and muslim scriptures that borrowed both their ideas and their stories.

before the conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries, the relationship between the jews (also known as the hebrews, the israelites and various other names), this relationship was relatively peaceful and almost all contact was traveling merchants and scholars. that all changed with the rise of islam in the arabian peninsula and the unification of the arab tribes into the ummah or the nation of islam. the political situation in israel was complex and fluid between the time of the roman invasion and the islamic conquests but the arab armies marched in and imposed their empire on the land, turning the jews into slaves in their own homeland.

this wasn\'t anything specific to the arab armies. the same was done to nations all over the world by the persians, greeks, mongols, manchu, french and english to name only a few imperial nations but it was the most oppressive and long-lasting conquest of israel, lasting from the seventh century to the twentieth, when the ottoman empire collapsed in the first world war. the result of the arab conquests is that much of the world is now arab - about 450 million. some of these are directly descended from the arabian peninsula while others were converted populations like the berbers of morocco and algeria or the somalis. a good general rule is that populations closest to the arabian peninsula are descended from the original arab tribes while those farther away are mostly converted local populations.

in 1948, at the time of decolonization, about a million arabs lived in israel. they divided into two groups - those who wanted to live in peace in israel and those who wanted to kill all the jews and make israel south syria. the first group now call themselves israeli arabs and more than two-million of them now live in israel as equal citizens, attacked every day by terrorists just like their jewish neighbors. the second group called themselves \"south-syrians\", among other things, at the time and supported a joint arab army invading israel to finish the nazi holocaust (in their own words).

that army came and was defeated, its supporters who had lived in israel before the invasion were relegated to live in gaza, judea and samaria, where their descendants live today. about twenty-five years later, they repurposed the name \"palestinians\" for their terrorist movement and suddenly stopped calling themselves jordanians, egyptians, syrians or, most importantly, arabs, though that\'s what they were and remain today. with all the great accomplishments of arab society and its rich history and culture, it must contuse the rest of the arab world how strongly they want to identify as anything but arab.

1% \"palestinian\" terrorists (5m).456 million arabs. the important takeaway, though, is that the overwhelming majority of arabs have no connection at all to the terrorist army calling itself the \"palestinians\". an arab declaring membership in the \"palestinian\" movement is the equivalent of a german joining the \"nazi\" movement or an american joining the ku klux klan. it\'s not an identity, just an extremist arab faction dedicated to genocide and terrorism.

•25% \"palestinian\" terrorists (5m) 2 billion muslims if you think islam is the problem, you\'re wrong - an even smaller fraction of the muslim world is a member of the \"palestinian\" terrorist group. most muslim nations are like saudi arabia and jordan who understand the \"palestinians\" are arab terrorists who only desire destruction and death, whether it is of jews, westerners or other muslims.

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