Who actually lived in the area known as “Palestine” before the State of Israel was founded? Old records tell a very different story about Palestinian origins.
Bravo on this excellent research about Arab itinerant workers free floating around the Levant who were attracted to Israel by the Zionist enterprise. The Ottoman records are chock a block filled with refutation of the phony Palestinian nationalist narrative. The Arab Christians used to be more numerous until forced to flee from the Islamic tribal violence: bothe real and threatened. There is also more on the re population plans with Circassians of the Ottomans (no Star Trek). And the surveys of how many historical villages have kosher mikvaot made from stone built into into their cellars
Who is the they in the title of your essay? Your essay shows that much of the population which today gives itself the title Palestinian has origins rooted in many provinces of the Ottoman empire, enhanced by the development of British Mandate Palestine due especially to the entrepreneurship of Jews and the yishuv that developed under that Mandate. The many examples certainly show that Palestinians are not the indigenous people they claim to be, predating the ancient Hebrews whom they wipe out of history. Perhaps they are the "they" your title refers to.
This is a richly detailed account of a history that, in my view, enriches the history of the people of the region by showing the complexity of a population that is too frequently treated as a museum exhibit, put behind glass and labelled. The real shame is that so few historians who have the linguistics skills and would be able to access Ottoman, Egyptian, Syrian and British archives have done so.
Is there a bibliography or works cited list associated with this essay?
Yes, everything is on my site. I have a huge list of sources. It was so long that I had to cut some out. I believe my article has a lot more info. I haven’t gone through this one entirely yet.
Palestinians have many origins and are really no more an ethnic group than Americans are. So their argument for statehood cannot rely on a common ethnicity. What, then, is the basis of their argument?
Id point to the Oslo Accords as the basis for the argument. An internationally recognized treaty that laid out specific borders, recognized a government and set forth the basis for relations with neighboring states. With a clear historical basis in prior internationally recognized treaties, including San Remo, Cairo, the British Peel Commission report, and the UNSCOP report and its approval by the general assembly. Those all establish a historical claim and Oslo Accords provide the legal basis.
Yet so many who claim to advocate for Palestinians disregard the Oslo Accords entirely.
So Palestine was just like most other countries in the world toward the end of the Ottoman Empire. Bravo! None of which justifies the British violating their duties under the British mandate of it. They were supposed to deliver a state with self-determination not a homeland for an ethnic group which would spiral into a state within a state (which then wouldn't get recognised as a state). That's what matters even after you've muddied the waters a little.
Bravo on this excellent research about Arab itinerant workers free floating around the Levant who were attracted to Israel by the Zionist enterprise. The Ottoman records are chock a block filled with refutation of the phony Palestinian nationalist narrative. The Arab Christians used to be more numerous until forced to flee from the Islamic tribal violence: bothe real and threatened. There is also more on the re population plans with Circassians of the Ottomans (no Star Trek). And the surveys of how many historical villages have kosher mikvaot made from stone built into into their cellars
Who is the they in the title of your essay? Your essay shows that much of the population which today gives itself the title Palestinian has origins rooted in many provinces of the Ottoman empire, enhanced by the development of British Mandate Palestine due especially to the entrepreneurship of Jews and the yishuv that developed under that Mandate. The many examples certainly show that Palestinians are not the indigenous people they claim to be, predating the ancient Hebrews whom they wipe out of history. Perhaps they are the "they" your title refers to.
Original title was Who Were The Arabs Of Palestine
Was this also published on your site?
This is a richly detailed account of a history that, in my view, enriches the history of the people of the region by showing the complexity of a population that is too frequently treated as a museum exhibit, put behind glass and labelled. The real shame is that so few historians who have the linguistics skills and would be able to access Ottoman, Egyptian, Syrian and British archives have done so.
Is there a bibliography or works cited list associated with this essay?
Yes, everything is on my site. I have a huge list of sources. It was so long that I had to cut some out. I believe my article has a lot more info. I haven’t gone through this one entirely yet.
Palestinians have many origins and are really no more an ethnic group than Americans are. So their argument for statehood cannot rely on a common ethnicity. What, then, is the basis of their argument?
Id point to the Oslo Accords as the basis for the argument. An internationally recognized treaty that laid out specific borders, recognized a government and set forth the basis for relations with neighboring states. With a clear historical basis in prior internationally recognized treaties, including San Remo, Cairo, the British Peel Commission report, and the UNSCOP report and its approval by the general assembly. Those all establish a historical claim and Oslo Accords provide the legal basis.
Yet so many who claim to advocate for Palestinians disregard the Oslo Accords entirely.
So Palestine was just like most other countries in the world toward the end of the Ottoman Empire. Bravo! None of which justifies the British violating their duties under the British mandate of it. They were supposed to deliver a state with self-determination not a homeland for an ethnic group which would spiral into a state within a state (which then wouldn't get recognised as a state). That's what matters even after you've muddied the waters a little.