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[Helen Reyes]

Love that map Mark!
Hey, the Egyptians were there before the Israelites and I'm sure their god/s told them that all the land as theirs too.

Phoneicians, Moabites, Caananites... After the Babylonian exile the Jews who returned from Babylon most likely thought the Jews left in Palestine were not Jews but some kind of natives. This has probably happened over and over again, as new orthodoxies aka clubs with exclusive memberships come and go.

I realized you are probably Palestinian, Magda. Is that correct? I was interested by what you said about Palestinians being there before the Jews. Of course there is no one answer, but how do you perceive the origins of the Palestinian people? Do you identify them with one or another of the ancient peoples in the area, or with the Greeks from Cyprus, or another group? I'm really curious and don't have an ax to grind on this issue. My own thoughts run toward the Greek but with a strange conundrum, that the Palestinians today are probably genetically more Jewish than the majority of the Jews in Israel, and not because of the Christian Identity nonsense about Khazarian Jews, which is false, the Khazarians were a very small group and genetically isolated for the most part from the Ashkenazim, but simply because of normal dillution over time in the European environment, just as many African Americans are more European than African, in the genetic sense. Which has little to do with people's self-identification of course, which is a product of the human imagination, and the human imagination to my mind is worthy of the greatest respect, much more than accidents of birth and genetic descent. I am probably a minority of one in this belief but I would love to hear your take on Palestinian origins.