What is the HISTORIC origin of the "Palestinian" people? When did they begin?
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The concept of "Palestinians" is one that did not exist until about 1948, when the Arab inhabitants, of what until then was Palestine, wished to differentiate themselves from the Jews. Until then, the Jews were the Palestinians. There was the Palestinian Brigade of Jewish volunteers in the British World War II Army.\nThe Arabs who now call themselves "Palestinians" do so in order to persuade a misinformed world that they are a distinct nationality and that "Palestine" is their ancestral homeland. But they are no distinct nationality at all. They are the same - in language, custom, and tribal and family ties - as the Arabs of Syria, Jordan, and beyond. There is no more difference between the "Palestinians" and the other Arabs of those countries than there is between, say, the citizens of Minnesota and those of Wisconsin. \n\nWhat's more, many of the "Palestinians", or their immediate ancestors, came to the area attracted by the prosperity created by the Jews, in what previously had been pretty much of a wasteland. \n\nThere is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.
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Israel is the only stronghold of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.  It is in the interest of the United States to ensure the survival of Israel.\n\nThe Arabs, plain and simple, are not prepared to accept the presence of a Jewish state in their midst.  They are therefore using the weapon of terrorism to attempt to destroy Israel and disperse the Israelis throughout the world.\n\nTo this end they have invented the "Palestinian People."\n\nIn fact, as David Basch wrote, "'Palestinians' [are an] Arab people no one heard of before 1967 before Israeli governments certified this piece of propaganda... As has been noted many times before, prior to 1948, that is before Jews had begun to call themselves Israelis, the only persons known as "Palestinians" were Jews, with the Arabs much preferring to identify themselves as part of the great Arab nation."\n\nAhmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, declared to the UN Security Council "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." \n\nSyrian President Hafez Assad once told PLO leader Yassir Arafat:\n\n"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."\n\nOnly a clear and decisive victory by Israel over the Palestinians and their backers can bring peace to the Middle East.
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Palestine was conquered by the Arabs.  Jerusalem was overrun in 638AD
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There are no such people as "palestinians" they are only arabs, no more no less. There has never been a language, culture, history or people known as palestinian. NOR has there ever in all history been a nation, state, or country called palestine.... Thus palestinians are arabs.. that should start one thinking...  some arabs began to apply the term palestinian to themselves only as far back as 1963 when egyptian born arafat used it to describe arabs... even israeli arabs call themselves ARABS and not palestinians... No, by the way Not ALL of them are terrorists, but many are, and many more support terrorism. Over all, its a religious war by the 1.2 billion muslims and 56 nations of islam against the one jewish nation...
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A group of people pretending to be a country.\n\n"Palestinians" are an Arab invention designed solely to keep Israel and Jews out of the Middle East.\n\n"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 President Hafez Assad
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you are quite correct, in fact Jews used terrorism in the same way that the palestinians do today long before anyone else. They were the origional terrorists
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Israel is associated with the earliest stage in the history of humanity by the "Galilee Skull", while recent excavations in Jericho have produced the oldest evidence of organized city life.  \nThe first known inhabitants of Israel in historic times were the Canaanites from whom the land long took its name. By c. 3000-2500 BCE the inhabitants seem to have been largely Semitic speaking; they introduced the use of bronze and developed cities. The Bible mentions seven tribes which dominated the country. The long struggle for its control between the South (Egypt) and the North (Assyria), which - in varying political forms - was to dominate the local scene down to the 19th cent. had already begun at this time. The country was now divided into large numbers of warring city-states ruled over by petty "kings." \n\nIt first enters into Jewish history with the immigration of Abraham whose descendants continued to consider it their home. The Tel El Amarna letters throw much light on conditions in Canaan in the 15th cent. BCE and on the conquests of the Semitic "Habiru," perhaps denoting or comprising incursions by the Israelite tribes. The Israelite tribes gave the country (henceforth "the land of Israel") its unity and historic significance. Except during the brief Crusading interlude (1099-1187), the concept of "Palestine" has in fact existed only in relation to Israelite and Jewish history. The Israelites' invasion was a slow and difficult process: they first established themselves in the plains, and only gradually obtained control of the hill-country; the process was completed with the capture by King David of Jerusalem in c. 1000 BCE. Meanwhile, the disunited and sometimes warring Israelite tribes, ruled over by regional Judges, were the prey of other invaders from the north and east. The most dangerous were the Philistines, sea-invaders from the Aegean, near Greece, who obtained firm control of the Maritime Plain in the 12th cent. BCE and thence pushed inland.  \n\nFor a time, it seemed probable that they would subdue the whole country. But the threat forged union on the Israelite tribes at last, largely through the spiritual dominance of the Prophet Samuel and the military genius of King Saul who established a monarchy embracing the entire country. His work was completed by his son-in-law King David who finally crushed the Philistine menace and extended the boundaries of the state in all directions. The latter's son King Solomon raised the kingdom to a great pitch of magnificence by his maritime enterprises, his lavish court, and his ambitious buildings, including the Temple at Jerusalem to serve as a religious center. The heavy taxation which all this necessitated resulted in widespread discontent, and after King Solomon's death, the northern tribes revolted.  \n\nHenceforth, the Land of Israel was divided for many years into two rival and sometimes warring states -- the smaller kingdom of Judah in the south [from which derives the word "Jew"], and the larger, more luxurious and more powerful kingdom of Israel (or Shamron-Samaria) to the north. The latter, weakened by internal dissensions between rival dynasties and recurrent wars with the kingdom of Syria (Damascus), succumbed in 721 to the Assyrians, its inhabitants being to a great extent deported and replaced by new settlers.  \n\nThe kingdom of Judah, more secluded geographically and more staunch spiritually and politically, for the moment escaped but succumbed in 586 before the Babylonians (Iraq). Jerusalem was now destroyed, large numbers of the inhabitants deported, and the monarchy abolished. An attempt to renew organized political life in subordination to Babylonia under Gedaliah, a member of the old royal house, was ended by his assassination (582 BCE).  \n\nOn the overthrow of the Babylonian Empire, the Persian (Iranian) king Cyrus permitted the children of the exiles, who had continued to cherish
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Interesting.  No one yet said that Arabs are merely anti-semitic.  They are Semites themselves but that had never stopped anyone.  \nHow long it took us and what we had to fight and how we had to fight, to finally establish that there was a people, my parents among them, the Palestinians who lived where Israel was formed.  Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in relative peace for thousands of years in Palestine, before Israel was formed.  Israel and its lovers choose to either spend a lot of time denying that there was a Palestinian people, or saying that no one kicked those Palestinians out of there.  \nYes, at the end of WWII, the Jews felt that they needed a country where they would be safe.  The allies riddled with guilt about the holocaust, contemplated a few options, then decided on Palestine.  Here are a few facts, to compel the myths you hear to dispute the original injustice committed against the Palestinians.  1. There was a country called Palestine for thousands of years in what is now Israel.  2. There was a nation there, and hundred of thousands of Palestinians.  It was not as the zionists (creators of Israel) put it, "a land without people for a people without land."  3. Nor were the Palestinians a bunch of nomad Arabs.  They are Arabs, they are Palestinian Arabs.  Just like the Jordanians, the Syrians, etc... their being Arab does not strip them of their particular Arab nationality.  They were rooted in Palestine, many in urban settings, even if a few Bedouins by the West Bank, crossed over often in what is now Jordan.  4. Nor did the Palestinians either sell their property to the thousands of Jews flocking into Palestine, nor did they run off.  5. The zionists waged a meticulously planned unforeseen war with massacres against the Palestinian people to evict them from Palestine.  The word terrorist was first used by the British for those zionists groups that went around killing Palestinians throughout Palestine.  \nAnd the Jews kept coming from everywhere, and the Palestinians kept getting forced out.  The West then pressured the Zionists to stop and the Zionists offered half of Palestine to the Palestinians.  How grand.  The Palestinians refused.  To this day, the now baptized Israelis want more land with less Arabs on it.  Palestinians for the large part want what is justifiably theirs.  The Palestinian Diaspora has been very successful as individuals wherever they went.  Palestinians were a highly educated group of people.  They knew, however, that pressing for their identity and speaking for their nation, had to become the sole purpose of their life, and would inconvience their host nations.  So, quite a few of them, resigned themselves to living quietly as residents, eventually, citizens of their host country.  Israel was there to stay, said the Western World, never mind how it was built.  Israel would be supported blindly and generously by the new superpower, America (true?  why?  Not to be discussed here).  \nBut a lot of Palestinians had remained in Palestine.  And no one counted on the Palestinians who stayed to actually have the perseverence and patriotic dedication they showed.  And a lot of Palestinians who did take other nationalities still spoke up for Palestine at the cost of putting up with discrmination.  \nInitially, the world stood with them, few countries recognized Israel.  The Zionists attributed it to anti-semitism, shaming the countries that condemned Israel.  It so happens, the Jews did wrong in Palestine but there was and had been horrific anti-semitism for the Jews to play upon.  Gradually, since 1948, and with a lot of growing influence over the world, the Zionists saw that the majority of the world recognizes the right of Israel to exist.  \nIn the meantime, the Palestinians who either remained in Palestine or lived scattered in refugee camps got poorer and poorer.  Their resources to fight were being destroyed.  Gradually, they turned to brutal violence to be heard.  Gradu
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how can one "illegally" occupy a place that was NEVER a country, state, or nation. AND that NEVER had a language, history, culture, or people called palestinian untill in 1963 egyptian born arafat applied the term to ARABS... and the UN does everthing against the one jewish nation on this planet while it does very little against the 57 muslim ones.
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The Jew-Palestine conflict is more about land than religious beliefs.  The fight goes back to biblical times - to the story of Jacob and Esau (brothers).  Jacob stole Esau's birthright (blessings, land, etc) by deceiving their father.  \nEverything was passed to Jacob (from whom the Isrealites descended), including the land that now belongs to Isreal.  The Palestinians descended from Esau, and believe that the land rightfully belongs to them.  This is why extremists don't recognize Isreal as a valid State.  \nThis is of course a very simplified explination of this incredibly complicated situation.
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Not only were the Jews there before the Palestineans, but they also purchased the land from Arabs when they settled there. The Arabs want to kill the Jews to take the land and they killed other Arabs who sold land to Jews. Originally the area of Palestine was divided by the UN into the Arab area of Jordan and the Jewish area of Israel. The rulers of Jordan wouldn't take the Palestinians into their country as they felt they would make trouble so they ended up in camps and were brought up to think they should kill the Jews to get the land from them. Many of them left Israel in 1948 when the state of Israel was created because in the broadcasts the other Arab countries told them that if they left and supported the Arab attackers that they could get the property of their Jewish neighbors after they were killed. When the Arabs lost, these people were stuck. The other Arabs did not give them a place to live. They left them there because they knew they would make trouble for Israel, they did not help them as fellow human beings and Muslims.\nThe Arabs who stayed kept their land, got modern medical care, plumbing and electricity and education, including college education. Villages were literally split in half in 1948 when the UN divided everything in half to form the two countries. In 1967 when the Israelis recaptured some of this land after being attacked by the Arabs, many of the Arabs on the Israel side of the border didn't want to have anything to do with the Arabs on the other side because many of them were uneducated and backward. \nThe land of Israel, by the way, was a desert and the Jews planted trees and irrigated it and made it a good place to live. They used to give jobs to the Palestinians, but they killed the Jews so they don't hire them anymore and are building a wall to keep them out so they don't come over and set off bombs in restaurants like they did yesterday. The Hamas, who are the government of the Palestineans, praised the bombing. If people were coming across our borders and bombing us, we'd build a wall too.\nWhen the Arabs ask for land back they also look at what's there. The Israelis had a five star famous resort on a little point of land called Taba that brought in a lot of money. The Egyptians asked for that and got it in 1988. They wanted it because it was a fancy resort that tourists flocked to from all over the world. There is nothing else there but the resort. The part of Jerusalem they want is full of very expensive nice condos, many over $500,000 that people paid for like we pay for our condos. I wouldn't want someone to give my house away.\nBy the way, the other Muslim countries also don't want the Israeli Arabs in their countries because the women are educated and have equal rights. They don't want them to spread ideas of equality to their women. In some Muslim countries women can't even drive a car.
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That's where their religion started, I believe...\n\nThey've been displaced throughout history, and when they were replaced at the end of WW2, they placed them in Israel.
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Palestine... there is no such place.  If Saudi Arabia, Egypt or other Arab neighbors WANTED there to be a Palestine... there would have been one prior to 1948.
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Palestine is a country that has been on this earth since the beginning of time (except for dinasour days).  The british declared it theirs and tried to give it as a gift to Jews that didnt have a place to go.  Not only should so called isrealis be blamed for this, but the british who wrongfully tried to give it to them.  in the end, Palestine will stay for the Palestinians, and Palestine is recognized all over the world, even in America, although the government tries to deny it.  Oh yea, did I mention that Palestine is recognized as a country by the United Nations, while Isreal is not!
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Short answer to a hard question to answer:\n\nThe kingdom of Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. However, this was approximately 1200 BCE, and since that time many other nations have laid claim to the land, effectively expelling the Jewish people from the territory, scattering them among the ancient lands. Although the Jews attempted to return to Israel often, they were usually met with hostility. Over time, and until the last few centuries, Muslims were the primary inhabitants of the this region, forming the nation that would eventually be known as Palestine, though it was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the early 20th century.\n\nWhen the British occupied the land after World War I, they encourages a movement that had been gaining popularity in Europe - the resettlement of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland. Although these mass migrations happened in waves, it caused tensions between the Jewish and Arab peoples who occupied this nation, not only due to religious and cultural differences, but to claims of land ownership. The Jewish people had not controlled land in this region for thousands of years, but were given land that had once been controlled by Arab people. Being forcably displaced from their homeland, the fighting between the Jews and Arabs escalated.\n\nDuring World War II and the rise of Nazism, the Jewish people were driven from Europe or slaughtered by the millions. After the fall of Germany, ending the war in Europe, many thousands of displaced Jewish people found themselves without a home. Thus is was decided to place them into Palestine. Hostilities between Jewish and Arab peoples in the country increased, eventually leading to the withdrawl of Great Britain from the region. \n\nIn 1947, Israel was carved out of Palestine, and given its own sovereign status. This erupted in war in region, as many Arab nations refuse to recognize the country of Israel, created, rather arbitrarily, by world powers, effectively isolating the Palestinian (Arab) occupation that had existed for over a millenia. A series of miliary conflicts and occupations of land resulted in the current tensions we hear about today.
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An Arab country was created in Palestine in 1922, now called Jordan. There was never any interest by the Arab world or the Arabs of Palestine in creating a second Arab country within Palestine. \n\nThe world has tried over and over to create this second Arab state. But the Arabs always refuse it, most recenty at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat was offered everything the claim to want. \n\nThe goal has nothing to do about a 2nd state for Palestine Arabs, and everything to do with destroying the only Jewish state.
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It all started when the USA decided to take part of Palestine and give it to the Jews. Yes I agree that the Palestine people should get over it now, but have to understand their aggression. \n\nJust think if (let just say) Germany decided to take your state (because I don't know where your from) and give it to the Muslims. You would be pretty upset also. \n\nSo I think your question should be "Why is that Palestine is so angry with the USA?" It's because we basically told the people that used to live in (Israel) that they had to pack up all their things and leave from their home land and move.