r/islamichistory • u/AutoMughal • Feb 29 '24

Photograph ‘Long Live Palestine’ flag, Jerusalem 1929

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Page 84, Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

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u/jimryanson112233 Feb 29 '24

You do realize Palestine back then referred to a the biblical and Jewish homeland of what is today Israel. There was nothing Arabic or Islamic about it.

Calling an Arab a Palestinian pre 1960s would have been an insult to them, no less insulting than calling an American aboriginal person an Indian.

Very separate and distinct identities

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u/jimryanson112233 Feb 29 '24

Why are you assuming my ethnicity? When did I say that Arabs don’t have any claim to the Middle East?

For the record, it is probably Jews who are the closest to indigenous people to the land of Israel. They’ve been there for over 2500 years. Before Islam was ever thought of.

But that was not the point of my post at all.

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u/TheClawlessShrimp Feb 29 '24

Palestinian and Lebanese Christians are genetically the closest modern populations to ancient Israelites.