The people have been indigeneous for 1000s of years. You may say they have adopted a new identity only for 3 generations or argue that their identity is atleast as old as their ancestry. Does the distinction matter for the future when it is accepted by even the parties in conflict that the other identity exists?So it means that Jews have been indigenous to the area for thousands of years versus only 3 generations for the Palestinians.
Unfortunately the death of 20,000 Gazans as casualties of war (the other 20,000 are active Hamas fighters) is not genocide.I disagree, genocide is more radical than a call for viping out Israel.
The Palestine pound (Arabic: جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, junayh filastini; Hebrew: פוּנְט פַּלֶשְׂתִינָאִי (א״י), romanized: funt palestina'i (eretz-yisra'eli) or Hebrew: לירה (א״י), romanized: lira eretz-yisra'elit; Sign: £P[1][2][improper synthesis?]) was the currency of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1 November 1927 to 14 May 1948, and of the State of Israel between 15 May 1948 and 23 June 1952, when it was replaced with the Israeli pound.It was a name on a map in a textbook in the UK.
That's why the British used it. It had no reality for the inhabitants.
You earlier suggested 3 generations ago in 1964. The goalposts seem to have moved.But as we discussed the Palestinian label and identity predates the conflict, or even Israel's formation.
Immaterial to the zionist declaration that they were going to colonize Palestine.
Your opinion is worthless.Unfortunately the death of 20,000 Gazans as casualties of war (the other 20,000 are active Hamas fighters) is not genocide.
I apologize, I should have clarified. I personally consider the label to predate Israel's formation. But if you protest, I will agree, as I did with Leimonis, for the sake of our discussion that the identity was conceived with the formation of the PLO in 1964. I dont see either position as weakening the fact that today the Palestinian identity is very real.You earlier suggested 3 generations ago in 1964. The goalposts seem to have moved.
I would dispute that.As I said, even if that identity was conjured up only in 64', it is very real today. For any way forward, that is all that matters.
That's my point, Dandy.Mandatory Palestine passports were travel documents issued by British authorities in Mandatory Palestine to residents between 1925 and 1948. The first brown-covered passport appeared around 1927, following the issue of the Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925. From 1926 to 1935 alone approximately 70,000 of such travel documents were issued.[1]
poor choice of words....as return to ancestral land is not colonizingImmaterial to the zionist declaration that they were going to colonize Palestine.
I would dispute that.I would dispute that.
The idea of patriotic nationhood is exploited because it is familiar to westerners. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are far more absorbed in their religious identity than any idea of being a citizen of countries they probably don't even admit should exits - because of course everything should be the Blessed Caliphate of Islam.
The 3 H's are terror groups and are not representative of the average Palestinian. The average Palestinian does hold the identity of a Palestinian today.I would dispute that.
The idea of patriotic nationhood is exploited because it is familiar to westerners. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are far more absorbed in their religious identity than any idea of being a citizen of countries they probably don't even admit should exits - because of course everything should be the Blessed Caliphate of Islam.
It wasn't their ancestral lands.poor choice of words....as return to ancestral land is not colonizing
but if you so insist that it is what governmental entity those "colonizers"
represented ? Who's colony did they establish ?
Yet if you define terrorism as intentionally targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, as it usually is, you have to label Israel as terrorist as well.The 3 H's are terror groups and are not representative of the average Palestinian. The average Palestinian does hold the identity of a Palestinian today.
At least two of those were elected by Palestinian Arabs as their governmentThe 3 H's are terror groups and are not representative of the average Palestinian. The average Palestinian does hold the identity of a Palestinian today.
So was Netanyahu and so was Hitler.At least two of those were elected by Palestinian Arabs as their government
Yeah, good old days when Jews could be slaughtered like sheep or sent to the ovens are over now,Yet if you define terrorism as intentionally targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, as it usually is, you have to label Israel as terrorist as well.
Which is why zionists are afraid of using the legal definition.
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