Money quote(s):
"the utter spuriousness and jihadist motivation of the Palestinian claim to nationality"
Mr. Greenfrield wrote:
"Aside from all the hysterical "sky is falling" nonsense, is the comparison between the Americans as an invented people and the Palestinian Arabs.
Let's look at how wrong this is and in how many ways. To begin with the American colonies did not demand their independence based on some spurious ancient history."
Yes. They're also the descendents of those other original inhabitants, Christian, Jewish, Pagan, who converted to Islam.
"Americans are not a self-invented people, they are a self-evolved people. The American revolution was a struggle between a colony and the mother country that ended in a break and the creation of a new
country that still used the language and much of the culture of the
mother country, but at the same time the colonies had been slowly evolving their own unique identity.
The "Palestinian" Arabs on the other hand are an invented people, and not even a self-invented people. That dubious honor fell to some comrades in Moscow and the Arab nations who found it convenient to have terrorist militias that could launch attacks across the border, supposedly on their own initiative, but in reality answering to them.
Their whole claim to a state is the bizarre insistence that they are the
region's original inhabitants who were driven out by the actual original inhabitants, the Jews. When they are actually the descendants of the Muslim conquerors who drove out or
subjugated the native inhabitants."
1 comment:
I might note that many did NOT convert to Islam -- although the Christian population has dwindled sharply. As an aside, the only reason to attack Palestinians as an "invented people" is to attempt to disenfranchise them of rights that belong to all people. Whether they call themselves Palestinians, West Bank Arabs, Olive Pickers, or whatever else -- as native-born residents of the land who can trace their ancestry in the area back further than can the vast majority of Israelis, they deserve the right to self-determination and other basic civil liberties and human rights every bit as much as you, I or the average Israeli does.
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