You can be an Arab Jew same as you can an Arab Christian and an Arab Muslim. I am trying to see your point but I can't can you clarify?
So the Arab Jews derive from the Al-Qhatani?
Hardly..
They maybe ARABIZED Jews (also known as Occidental Jews) because their lingua franca is Arabic (by necessity), but they do not consider themselves Arabs. And this might explain why, after 1948, up to a million Occidental Jews were evicted from Arab countries.
Apparently they weren't "arab enough".
However, I primarily define "Arab" as many define themselves, by their lineage and tribe. And since all traditional Arab tribes trace their lineage back to either the Al-Qhatani tribe of Yemen (or Yaman "southern" or "pure" Arabs), or Al-Adnan (northern tribes) to assert that a conquered people are now "Arab" merely because they speak the language is ridiculous. Since Al-Qhatani and Al-Adnani define their "seniority" as how many generations that separate them from Noah, you cannot ignore this aspect of what constitutes an Arab.
And as I pointed out earlier, Egypt's Copts do not consider themselves as "Arabs", despite the fact that most speak Arabic. And Jews, although they may live amongst Arabs (or Christians, for that matter) do not forego their ethnic/cultural roots as a NATION of people, merely because of geographical location.
And Arabs/Palestinians living in Israel, and possibly even speaking Hebrew, are not ethnic Jews.. now are they? They might have converted to Judaism, but not the same as being ethnically Jewish..
Now, I have no dog in this fight.. I'm not Jewish, nor do I subscribe to this BS that the "purest" Jews, or Arabs are the ones who trace back their ethnic/religious roots the furthest.
But what I AM SAYING is that the people's who live in Palestine have been nomadic, moving from place to place (with the exception of city, or agricultural, dwellers and all of them came from somewhere else with exception of the Sephardic Jewish population. They either came as conquerors, or settlers, taking land as they saw fit (or as they could defend). But the British saw to it that no Jews could return to Palestine without either settling on unoccupied land seized from the Ottoman Pashas, or purchased from the existing population (who primarily were squatters on the Pasha's land and thus didn't own it to begin with.)
And there was PLENTY of unoccupied land in Palestine in 1918, and even up to 1967. For example, Jewish settlements in the West Bank, controversial they may be, have been built on land that was confiscated from the Jordanian government. It was never inhabited so far I as I know and the Hashemites had claimed it for themselves when they annexed the West Bank.
And let's face it Sarman.. tell me WHERE in the Arab world a Jew will be permitted to purchase land and hold the property rights to it?
I believe it's still a crime punishable by death in the Palestinian Authority, as well as Jordan..
Hawk
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