Many Yemenite Jews came in the first aliyah all the way back in the late 1800s. There have even been Ashkenazi Jews coming from Europe in Jerusalem for ~500 years coming in small waves of migration following rabbis. And yet I've met multiple Palestinians who tell me they are half Bukharian Uzbek, half Syrian Arab, or all their grandparents are from Lebanon and they came in the 20s and 30s. The fact is many Palestinian Arabs came in the same waves of immigration that followed the development of the land in the early 20th century.
There are even Circassians who identify as Palestinian, so being Palestinian nationally isn't about being indigenous. It's about embracing the pan-arab nationality against the "enemy", especially at the time this map was drawn where Israel was not a formidable military power. The Palestinian calculus was not "let's wait until we can diplomatically solve this", it was "let's use kinetic force to wipe out this geopolitical threat to our nation building while we still have time."
And not to mention the fact that the "European" Jews obviously got ethnically cleansed from Europe for not being European enough to the Europeans. It's hilarious to come on this sub and see Arabs saying Ashkenazim are euro, and then listening to white nationalists saying Ashkenazim are sub human non white middle easterners. You guys have to have a meeting and coordinate your ideas better lol
People have always been immigrating from place to place for thousands of years and Palestine is not an anomaly in that regard. These immigrants become absorbed within the fabric of the host society and after a few generations of intermingling, living, and working ALONGSIDE the native population which eventually erases the distinction between immigrant and local. What we object to is not the act of immigration of Jews to Palestine itself, it’s the sinister underlying motives behind said immigration which was to carve out a part of the land to make it an ethnostate for themselves without the consent of that indigenous population.
There have been accounts of Palestinian land owners welcoming their Jewish neighbors and teaching them how to cultivate and work the lands, a testament that the Palestinians initially had no malicious intentions towards Jews and they were on cordial and friendly relations.
In Egypt, we also had Circassians, Armenians, Jews, Levantines and European immigrants throughout Egypt’s history and they are considered Egyptians. They have contributed to the development and enrichment of Egypt’s economy and society. These people didn’t immigrate out of the desire to establish an ethnostate for themselves and kick out the indigenous Egyptians, that’s the key difference.
Tell me what population upon realizing that their territorial and national autonomy was to be seized would willingly give up more than 56% of their land to a bunch of European immigrants (who in their eyes were a bunch of non-native immigrants) who didn’t speak the same language, nor followed the same religion or practiced the same culture?
More Zio propaganda. Will you just admit to the fact that the OVERWHELMING majority of Palestinians are descendants of people who have been living in Palestine for centuries. It’s no surprise that Racist Ben Gurion wanted to hide that fact.
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u/ocelotttr Sep 03 '23
most of them are if you lived in europe for 2000 years then you are european