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Beastly Boy

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9. The research cited in the OP is too flawed for making any conclusions, but I still like the thread.
Thu Nov 9, 2023, 10:37 AM
Nov 2023

It shows that the lands we now commonly associate with the name Palestine have always been ethnically fluid regardless of how far back in history you go. Egyptians, Hittites, Jews, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Arab, Turkic and Kurdish caliphates, European crusaders, Ottomans, have all had sovereign control of the land, and at no point the entirety of Palestine had been homogeneous in its entirety. Jews, Arabs, Druz, Armenians, Assyrians, Bedouin and other ethnicities have equal claim to calling themselves Palestinian. And not a single one of them can claim Palestine "from the river to the sea" as their own.

This land has always been shared, and always will be. By conflict or coexistence, it will be shared. This is the only historical fact that is undeniable.

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