@dgoldman.bsky.social Palestinians are not outsiders; they are indigenous to the land, with family lineages going back centuries. The claim that Palestine is ‘held prisoner by the Arab-Muslim colonial machine’ doesn’t align with the historical record.
I never said PALESTINIANS were outsiders. ARABS are. The core of the Palestinian population is those Jews who remained and were stripped of their Jewish identity and had an Arab identity forced on them. It ABSOLUTELY aligns with the historical record.
Time and time again, because of the indoctrination, Palestine has sided with Arab-Muslim colonial powers, only to suffer. For instance, in 1948, Palestine sided with Egypt, Jordan, et al. against Israel's existence, only to lose, and be destroyed by Egypt and Jordan which consumed it.
In 2005, Israel helped reunify Palestine. The whole country had the ability to join in and vote for new leadership. They chose Hamas: a fascist, theocratic, colonizing force whose core objective was replacing Israel with an exclusively Islamic caliphate.
Fatah split with Hamas and Palestine was once again split in two. I do hope that there will be peace between Israel and Palestine. It can only come when those in Palestine give up this Arabism and Islamism and accept their fellow Kna'anim as neighbors.