What is the Arab history in Palestine?

Question

Arabs are not a singular people. Origins are complex and intermingled with many peoples and lines. According to tradition, true Arabs are descendants of Abraham and his son Ishmael and prior to the 20th century, "Arab" designated the Bedouin, tribal-based society of the Arabian desert, which is the birthplace of Arabic. Other Arabs are ethnic groups that have been extant in their lands of origin for millennia. Modern Arab nationalism is a product of 19th- and 20th-century developments and has no prior historical basis. Before the rise of nationalism, most Arabic-speakers identified themselves as members of a particular family or tribe; as residents of a village, town, or region; as Muslims, Christians, or Jews; or as subjects of large political entities such as the Ottoman empire.

After the Roman conquest of Judea, the Nabataeans and others, "Palastina" became a province of the pagan Roman Empire and then of the Christian Byzantine Empire, and very briefly of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire. In 638 AD, an Arab-Muslim Caliph took Palastina away from the Byzantine Empire and made it part of an Arab-Muslim Empire. The Arabs, who had no name of their own for this region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palastina, that they pronounced "Falastin".

In 1099, Christian Crusaders from Europe conquered Palestine and took Jerusalem. After 1099, it was never again under Arab rule. The Christian Crusader kingdom lasted less than 100 years. Thereafter, Palestine was joined to Syria as a subject province first of the Egyptian Mameluks, and then of the Ottoman Turks, whose capital was in Istanbul.

Answer 1

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When Jews began to immigrate to Palestine in large numbers in 1882, fewer than 250,000 Arabs lived there, and the majority of them were not long-time residents but relatively recent arrivals. Palestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of the majority of the population after the Muslim invasions of the 7th century.
No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine. In fact, Palestine is never explicitly mentioned in the Koran, rather it is called "the holy land" (a Arad al Mugaddash).
Palestinian Arabs never viewed themselves as having a separate identity. When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted: "We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds."
The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947 that said, "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria" and that, "politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity." A few years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, told the United Nations Security Council, "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
The Arab and Zionist national movements shared the desire for independence in their homelands. But there was an important difference: The Zionists were united in their attachment to Palestine, while the Arabs were divided by the competing interests of individual leaders from different lands throughout the region.
Palestinian Arab nationalism, moreover, did not become a significant political movement until after the 1967 Six Day War and Israel's capture of the West Bank. Prior to that time, when they were primarily under Jordanian rule, Palestinians did not demand self-determination or statehood.
The conflict between Jews and Arabs over who would become independent in Palestine was inevitable, because the Arabs were convinced the land was not able to sustain both peoples. This precluded a compromise by which both nations could realize their independence in Palestine.

Answer 2

The people we now call 'Arabs' arrived in Palestine from neighboring Arabia through invasion in 638AD and have over a 1300 year history in Palestine. The 'Arab' history in Palestine is just about as long as the Jewish history in Palestine (and the Christians had a several century history there too). By the time of Mohammad's death (who Muslims believe was a prophet of God) in 632AD Mohammad had united all Arabia under Islam and himself and was ready to expand further, but then died. The other big powers at that time in the world were the Roman Empire and Persian Empire both of whom had just beaten each other mostly to death in a long 25 year war against each other. The Roman Empire had held Palestine for over 400 years. When Mohammad died, an old man 'Abu Bakr' was chosen as the next leader of the Muslims and Arabs, but he was elderly and only lasted 2 years. Next was a top Arab and Muslim general named Umar (Omar) who took over in 634AD. He wasted no time in attacking 'both' the exhausted Roman and Persian Empires at the same time. He destroyed the Persian Empire forever and took half the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire (the Western half had meantime collapsed), including Palestine in 638AD, which was surrendered peacefully by the then ruling Roman Christians to avoid further bloodshed. The Arabs then came first as rulers, then as settlers among the previous populations.

Answer 3

Abharam's quest for a son is the reason for the turmoil in the present day Palastine, Israel & Gulf.

God had promised that through Abraham will the word of god be fulfilled. (I think god had tested Abraham with this proclamation, & like a true man he was tempted & longed for a son.) Sarah his wife was a old lady beyond child-bearing age & so Abraham thought that the child could be conceived by somebody else. So Sarah gave her maid to abraham to bear a son, which she did & she proclaimed that through that son (Ismail gods promise would come true.). Soon Sarah too conceived & bore a son. & there used to be conflict as to who is the true owner of the title - the 1st born or the true 1st born of the lienage.

Since the land of promise (after exite from Egypt's slavery) happens as to be Israel both lay a claim as to it being their land of promise & is holy to both.

Both seem to have had 12 tribes & they both began to florish & are the 2 biggest religion in the world.

Its same as the Eve's greed commited a second time by Abharam.

Answer 4

To add to that, under the Ottomans, the terittorial capital was in Damascus...not Jerusalem.

The Ottomans gave no importance to Jerusalem, also, under the Ottomans they knew the territory as Southern Syria not "Palestine".

Answer 5

dunno but last i checked most of palestine still belongs to the arabs and its the jews who have a wee little sliver of it