Are Palestinians the Indigenous People of Palestine?
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The first residents of Palestine were homo erectus.
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Animism is way older than polytheism or its offspring the Abrahamic religions.
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Animism is way older than polytheism or its offspring the Abrahamic religions.
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I remember a documentary a few years ago on TV saying many Palestinians are of Jewish ancestry. Essentially, many of them might be the Jews who'd never left. The same documentary was showing very similar genetic similarities between Israeli Jews and many Palestinians.
This was a few years ago though, and how reliable the documentary was, I have no idea. But it was still interesting.
The Israelites (בני ישראל, Standard: Bnai Yisraʾel; Tiberian: Bnai Yiśrāʾēl; ISO 259-3 (Arabic: بني اسرائيل Bani Isra'il): Bnai Yiśraʾel, translated as: "Children of Israel" or "Sons of Israel") were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th to 6th centuries BCE). The Israelites are traditionally thought to have later evolved into the Jews and Samaritans, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively. In modern Hebrew usage, an Israelite is, broadly speaking, a lay member of the Jewish ethnoreligious group, as opposed to the priestly orders of Kohanim and Levites.
The biblical term "Israelites" (also the "Twelve Tribes" or "Children of Israel") means both the direct descendants of the patriarch Jacob (Israel) as well as the historical populations of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah. For the post-exilic period, beginning in the 5th century BCE, the remnants of the Israelite tribes came to be referred to as Jews (tribes of Judah, Simeon, Benjamin and partially Levi), named for the kingdom of Judah. This change is explicit in the Book of Esther (4th century BCE). On the other hand, Samaritans (tribes of Menasseh, Ephraim and partially Benjamin and Levi) became named for Samaria. It replaced the title Children of Israel.
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Judaism is.
I don't know if you were referring to me. From what I got in the documentary was that while most Palestinians today are mostly Muslim with some Christians and few Jews, many of them were probably of Hebrew origin historically, but later adopted Islam or the Christian Faith.
Incorrect. Even many Jews reject that view, though I agree some Jews would agree with you. The proof that it is not genetic is that I myself have met people raised Jewish but who are not Jewish themselves. Many Iranian Baha'is like that. So clearly it's not genetic otherwise they could not have adopted a new religion.
The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3 Yehudim Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]); (בני ישראל, Standard: Bnai Yisraʾel; Tiberian: Bnai Yiśrāʾēl; ISO 259-3: Bnai Yiśraʾel, translated as: "Children of Israel" or "Sons of Israel"), also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites (Hebrews) of the Ancient Near East.
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