Here's a "Palestinian" on the matter: "[E]very Palestinian in Gaza and all over Palestine can prove their Arab roots, whether they be in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or anywhere else ... half of my family is Egyptian ... [t]here are over 30 families in the Gaza Strip with the surname Al-Masri, 'Egyptian.' Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptian, and the other half are Saudi." -- Fathi Hamad, Hamas minister of the interior and of national security, March 23, 2012.
@@cosimodirondo972 This is a convoluted argument. The entire Muslim world is mixed and interconnected, b/c the faith encourages travel! They were traveling before it was cool-how do you think Islam spread to Africa? This comment meant we're all brothers in Islam, as all Muslims refer to each other this way. Go to a mosque and they'll greet you as a brother/sister. That's not the point. The point is there were always ppl there, it's very rare sociologically for a ppl in a prophetic, already existing land/people to completely leave! They're decendants of nutefians and canaanites, and peer-reviewed journals published this data! Nobody ever migrated en masse from Yemen there, that doesn't make any sense! There were always ppl in that land, regardless of borders, religion, passports, or language. If you're an adult and posting this comment, why didn't you take the time to research its context first? Rehearsing points-this means you're not looking deeper. Looking deeper will make you uncomfortable, but on the right side of history.
Enough with myths, Palestinians are Canaanites who have been there since the dawn of time, also the arabs from the arabian peninsula didn't ethnically cleanse civilians like how Isreal is doing, shame on Isreal.
The ruling authorities changed nobody was driven out and no houses, farms and land were stolen. Nothing justifies the nakba. What Israel is doing to Palestinians is a 100 times worst than the holocaust and has been going on for more than 70 years
This is dishonest and inaccurate. Arabic is a language and spread w/ Islam. The real Arabs are in the Arabian Peninsula, and Palestinians have less that 1% of their DNA. There were always ppl in that land, thousands of years before the 7th century. That land always had ppl, whatever you want to call them.
How is Ghana considers herself a Jerusalem resident in the past when she is from Tulkarem, which is 60 kilometers north of Jerusalem, how does she consider herself a refugee when she's a successful doctor and a writer, also the so called Palestinian nation was created in 1964 before that these people were considered Arabs, who are living in Palestine or Israel today, who are from different Arab countries like Egypt Syria, Saudi Arabia and others. The Jews have come home after 2000 years and bought most of the land in Israel, there was no ethnic cleansing, the only ethnic cleansing in the past 100 years was Jews who were ethnic cleansed from Arab states and from Europe, so don't give me this bullshit about these made-up nation so called Palestinians who never considered themselves Palestinians until 1964 when the terrorist Arafat (who is Egyptian himself) decided to call the Arabs of Israel Palestinians
This is a dishonest and convoluted post. That fact you're actually here on this video only proves there's guilt and frustration w/ your argument. Whatever you want to call those ppl, there were always ppl there. Actually, they associated w/ being from regions in Palestine, i.e. Jerusalemite. Some of the land was purchased, but not all. If that was the case, why massacres and expulsions? Why throw gasoline on the streets of Haifa, then start shooting at ppl trying to tame the flames? Why have Irgun solidiers brag abt massacres? Why the supremist onslaught in Gaza now, wherein they record themselves, looting, engaging in torture, writing threatening graffit on buildings, running over the 'Gaza" sign, blocking aid as they enjoy food from settlers? No, it was a supremist onslaught from the very beginning! And btw They were never kicked out of Arab countries, go read what Avi Shlaim and the Sassoons of Iraq said abt this. You're repeating points w/ out reading and understanding context first?! To say the culture is has rehearsed statements and supremist mentality is an understatement. Please humble yourself and be on the right side of history! Everyone hurts in this: the oppressor and oppresed-the heart is never at ease!
