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SilverElfintoday at 5:34 AM3 repliesview on HN

Palestinians are not indigenous to the region. Jewish people are, and are the continuation of Canaanite culture. Islamic Arabs who have taken over the area and now call themselves “Palestinian” are just laying claim by making up a new identity.


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lemonthemetoday at 7:32 AM

Imagine having access to information about thousands of years of human history, with all its big migrations, the ebbs and flows of civilizations, religions and empires, and still actually thinking one people in particular have some natural claim to a stretch of land.

What if instead we respected state sovereignty and international law for the betterment of all instead of continually stirring up shit to benefit of a few powerful figures?

happymellontoday at 5:50 AM

United States citizens are not indigenous to the region. Native Americans are, and the continuation of the indinginous peoples culture. People who have taken over the area and now call themselves "American" are just laying claim by making up a new identity.

wqaatwttoday at 5:47 AM

> Palestinians are not indigenous

What does that even mean? Just because they converted (or were forced) to another religion?

Even the Hebrew recognizes there were plenty of other people living in territory of what is now modern Israel and that the Hebrews violently subjugated quite a few of them.

> the continuation of Canaanite culture

Well culturally they became mostly European, Arab etc. depending on where they lived.