I'd be interested in seeing what form this 'alienation' supposedly takes...I'm not saying it doesn't, because some Israeli policies could do with a bit of fine tuning...but I am unaware of any fomenting disquiet.
Then you haven't paid enough attention to events associated with the Second Intifada. What distinguished it from the First Intifada was the widespread participation on the part of Israeli Arabs.
Some of the Bishops and Patriarchs are outright anti-Semites, so I am not at all surprised.
Has to be antisemitism, huh? Can't possibly be concern for the Palestinian community they serve?
Hate to break it to you. Arabs are Semites.
Well then you have a wee bit of a problem regarding that because the rather sparse and erratic population records do retain enough information to clearly show that the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs came from around Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other areas. Arabs are tribal, and retain customs, traditions names and dialect
Then you need to explain why Palestinians speak the Levant dialect rather than that of Egypt or Arabia. As for names and tribal affiliations, you do realize that when the first wave of conversions occurred in the Levant, the converts (muwali) had to be accepted into an Arab tribe?
Dr Mordechai Kedar lectures extensively on this and is one of the foremost authorities on Arab culture...
Dr Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University who is associated with anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller? Who recommends raping the wives and daughters of terrorists?
That would be like my calling on a Holocaust Denier as an expert on Zionism.
and I can tell you that he certainly doesn't subscribe to the conclusions you come up with regarding DNA tests.
I would hate to think we would agree on much of anything.
For someone with a PhD in this field, you seem remarkably out of touch with historical reality...There were loads of Arabs that settled in Palestine at the end of the Ottoman Empire and throughout the British Mandate, adding to others that had settled in small unstable groups over several hundred years.
Apparently you didn't read what I wrote which is regardless of whether there were Arab migrations in the late 19th and 20th century, the majority of Palestinians are the ones who always lived there.
Going back to history....Jordan was created out of approx 76% of land that was promised to be part of the forthcoming Jewish Homeland
You mean by the British who were promising the same chunk of land that wasn't theirs to the French and the Arabs at the same time? Jordan was a wasteland as I'm sure you are aware.
...so the Jewish people were left with the rest...and legally it is their land including all of Judea and Samaria.
Excuse me, but how does a promise made by one country to the land of another country constitute a legal title? Especially when it was clearly just a ploy to get support during WWI?
However the duplicitous British now wanted to be ever so fair and give them about 54% of what was left and the Arabs 46%...which meant the Jews got around 17% of what was originally promised to them...they reluctantly accepted...the Arabs didn't, and well you know the rest.
I agree the British were duplicitous of the British to offer the same chunk of land to three different parties. However, my recollection is that the partition of Palestine was mandated by the United Nations, not the British.
I haven't argued from a biblical perspective, but an historical one.
I'll just finish by a pertinent quote about the myth of indigenous Palestinians.
"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel".
- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -
I'm afraid that doesn't prove your point. Note your Palestinian Commander is not making common cause with Arabs in general. He specifies Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. All four of these countries share the culture of the Levant, all are largely descendants of the Aramaic peoples who originally lived in this area which is sometimes referred to as Greater Syria. It is a little like Californians making common cause with Oregon and Washington. It doesn't mean that anyone has the right to take California away from them just because Californians don't have a sufficiently separate ethnic identity or because California was never really a nation-state to begin with.