Re: 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.
Arabs never had a problem about Jews billing themselves as a "cultural nation/minority" within the wider, Arab/Muslim polity... Arabs' hostility is not aimed at Jews, it's aimed at Jewish colonialism aka Zionism. Just because the Jews felt like an underdog minority lost amidst the Arab ocean didn't entitle them to carve up a SOVEREIGN Jewish state out of Palestinian/Arab land! Otherwise, I can adduce several examples of other mistreated minorities that could, likewise, claim a nation-state of their own: African-Americans could rightfully claim a piece of North America as a black-ruled enclave... Oh, I know your answer to that argument: Liberia, the country the US graciously offered to former black slaves to rule as their own. However, I'm afraid Liberia doesn't fit the bill... Liberia, as an African state, is like turning Manhattan into a Jewish nation-state --a Zionist enclave into Zionist America... where's the thrill? where's the catch? where's the FIGHT???? No, African-Americans, perhaps in cahoots with Hispanics, ought to turn Florida into a country of their own, fitted with nukes aimed at your largest sundown towns.
Another case in point is the Gypsies. It's now common historical wisdom that Gypsies are the descendants of Indian tribes from Central India, they migrated westwards about one thousand years ago and settled first in Turkey, next in the Balkans, Central Europe, Germany, France, Spain, Britain,... As you know, Gypsies, too, were the victims of the Nazi genocide. So, how about resettling the Gypsies where they belong, that is, in India? How about cleaning up an area around Bangalore, expelling Hindus and other local bums and making room for the poor Gypsies?
Re: ...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.
That's not a scientific/archeological argument! To claim that the Hebrews/Jews were the first settlers of Palestine is a Biblical fantasy. It's quite likely that there were other nomadic tribes who used to prowl the area for centuries before Hebrews barged in.... They may not have left monuments or scriptures or archeological remains but that doesn't allow you to rule them out. It's up to archeologists and paleontologists to keep on looking for evidence of human settlements as far back as 10,000 BC or even 20,000 BC, right back to the first years of the Neolithic Era. Once some Homo Palestinus has been identified as the first settler of the "Holy Land" then it's up to geneticists and DNA genealogy to trace the descendants of Homo Palestinus down to the present day --and their findings will likely disappoint you....
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