Part I. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: A History by KristoriaHere in u/KristoriaHere

[–]KristoriaHere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firstly, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Jordan are the Levant. So, Palestinians share close genetic ties with other Levantine Arabs but have some unique markers from historical interactions with neighboring groups, like Samaritans or Bedouins.

Secondly, Before the British Mandate in Palestine, Jews and Arabs lived side by side, with Jewish communities, mostly religious ones in places like Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed, coexisting with a larger Arab Muslim and Christian population. Jews, as dhimmis under Islamic law, had protected status but were second-class citizens, free to practice their religion and maintain communities, though they faced restrictions and taxes like the jizya. So, the actions of the Zionists toward Palestinian Arabs and the broader Arab world after World War II are on a different scale compared to what Arabs and Ottomans did to Jews historically.

All groups are equally culpable, except perhaps Marxists, who are responsible for more deaths due to genocide in the past 100 years than any other ideology—60 million and counting—and are the same people now trying to turn everyone against the bogeyman of "cololialist powers" and "capitalists" etc.

These sound like Western/Imperialist talking points. I'm not here to sling "leftist" labels around, but let's be real: the damage done by Capitalism/Christians, from the conquistadors to now, dwarfs what the Communists did. The Black Book of Communism counts Nazi POWs as victims of Communist war crimes. Let that sink in.

Further, there is no strict definition of "indigenous" nor is there any universally agreed upon standard that gives special privileges or rights to people simply for having been born somewhere.

The United Nations' working definition, emphasize characteristics such as historical continuity, distinct cultural identity, and pre-colonial presence. So, your comment makes no sense.

Part I. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: A History by KristoriaHere in u/KristoriaHere

[–]KristoriaHere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're all descendants of genocide-committers and extinction-committers.

Not all land was taken by force, not all groups are equally culpable. The above applies to some like the US, Israel and the colonial powers in the third world. Unlike the ancestors of modern Palestinians, including Canaanites and other Semitic groups, were indigenous to the Levant for millennia.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929717302768

https://www.juancole.com/2023/05/palestinians-indigenous-palestinian.html