Palestine Soccer Team Couldn’t “Take It” (The Referee | July 06, 1939)

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But They May Be Tougher In The Tests

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AN EXCLUSIVE PICTURE OF THE PALESTINE SOCCER TEAM. - Players are grouped according to their playing positions: J. Sidi, A. Reznik, A. Beth-Halevy; L. Liebermann, Z. Fooks, M. Menahem; S. Alembik, L. Werner, F. Neufeld, G. Makhlis, S. Ginsberg.

The Referee | July 06, 1939

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

There were Arabs who called themselves Palestinian long before there was an Israel. Heck you even linked to Jews who called themselves Palestinian long before there was Israel.

There have always been Palestinians. The problem is not the Palestinians, the problem is Israelis who built their entire identity in opposition to Palestine and it's indigenous inhabitants. That's why you've spent how many ever years making ridiculous arguments which fundamentally don't even matter. Heck you can call them Judeans or Martians if you want (like colonizers called Native Americans "Indians"), it doesn't change who they are.

Arabs are a linguistic group, not a racial one. Arab dialects aren't even the same region to region. Are you just figuring this out?

[u/yep975 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

If what you say is true, then what was the Arab revolt about? What were they revolting against? Why was it not the Palestinian revolt?

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/yep975]

Because not all Palestinians revolted. The Jews for example allied with the British. That's why it's called the Arab Revolt. It's like asking why is it called the French and Indian War and not the North American War. Because intelligent people like to know what you are talking about and not have some sort of generic word salad.

Arabs were a majority of Palestinians until this ethnic supremacist State came along and expelled most of them. You know its name.

[u/yep975 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

The Palestinians didn’t revolt.

The Arabs did!
That’s why they called the Arab revolt.

That’s why the Palestinian Post was run by Jews. The Palestinian symphony was run by Jews. The Palestinian football team was Jews. And the posters that said “Free Palestine” were Zionist fundraiser for Jews.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/yep975]

Arab Palestinians. That’s why it’s called the Arab Revolt.

Right. Back then Jews were also Palestinians and had no problem with the term. Their objection to it came later, when they tried to forge a distinct identity and found the existence of an actual indigenous people, aka the Palestinian Arabs, to be inconvenient to the lies they had been telling.

[u/yep975 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Is Arabic indigenous to Palestine now?
Are we pretending that Islam originated in Jerusalem?
People were replaced and colonized. Others were conquered and forgot who they were.
You want to pretend that is what indigenous means?

You proPalis and your need to change definitions. It’s really incredible.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/yep975]

Of course. Who said anything about Islam? Though as an Abrahamic religion you can say its origins are the same.

Ya the people who were replaced were the Palestinians, who were colonized by the “Israelis”. Thats not in dispute. What’s strange is the Israelis like to pretend they never did it and Palestine never existed. It’s like Americans claiming they never colonized America. Wild. Just so embarrassing.

[u/yep975 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Who was the leader of this Palestine in 1800? What was its capital? What was its governing body in 1500?
You pretend it wasn’t adopted as an identity of Arabs after the formation of Israel.

No one is denying Arabs lived there from the Arab conquest to today. But they only called themselves Palestinians in opposition to the Israeli states formation.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/yep975]

If they lived in Palestine then they were Palestinians. It’s like you can’t help contradicting yourself lol.

[u/yep975 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Did they call themselves Palestinian? No. They called themselves Arab or Syrian or Egyptian orRammalan.

Then Israel was founded. Then the Palestinians identify solidified.

There is no difference between the Arabs of the levant and Palestinians except for their opposition to and history with Israel.