Did anyone tell the Palestinians that they are Israeli now?

Question

There is no Palestine anymore. This is Israel. You are now an Israeli.

Answer 1

Nonsense, believe me Palestine will return to its people

Answer 2

Ugh. No. That's not how it works. There are Palestinians living inside Israel proper as Israeli citizens; the rest are Palestinian Palestinian and vote for their own government.

Answer 3

So before the creation of the State of Israel, who were the Palestinians?

Until 1950, the name of the Jerusalem Post was THE PALESTINE POST; the journal of the Zionist Organization of America was NEW PALESTINE; Bank Leumi was the ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK; the Israel Electric Company was the PALESTINE ELECTRIC COMPANY; there was the PALESTINE FOUNDATION FUND and the PALESTINE PHILHARMONIC. All these were Jewish organizations. In America, Zionist youngsters sang "PALESTINE, MY PALESTINE", "PALESTINE SCOUT SONG" and "PALESTINE SPRING SONG." In general, the terms Palestine and Palestinian referred to the region of Palestine as it was. Thus, "Palestinian Jew" and "Palestinian Arab" are straightforward expressions. "Palestine Post" and "Palestine Philharmonic" refer to these bodies as they existed in a place then known as Palestine. The adoption of a Palestinian identity by the Arabs of Palestine is a recent phenomenon. Until the establishment of the State of Israel, and for another decade or so, the term Palestinian applied almost exclusively to the Jews.


What was the identity of the Arabs of Palestine at the end of the Ottoman Empire?

On August 11, 1919 in a memorandum to Lord Curzon, Lord Balfour stated that "whatever be the future of Palestine, it is not now an 'independent nation,' nor is it yet on the way to becoming one". Professor of history Reverend James Parkes wrote in Whose Land that "before 1914, ... the mass of the population [in Palestine] had no real feeling of belonging to any wider unit than their village, clan or possibly confederation of clans". He stressed the point that "up to that time it is not possible to speak of the existence of any general sentiment of nationality".

A Palestinian Arab, Professor of history Rashid Khalidi recently confirmed Balfour's and Parkes' statements that the population of Palestine at the beginning of this century did not represent a distinct nation. In his book Palestinian Identity, he wrote that only at the beginning of the twentieth century did the Arabs of Palestine start to see "themselves as part of other communities, both larger and smaller ones. This identification certainly did not include all sectors or classes of the population. But it did constitute a new and powerful category of identity that was simply nonexistent a generation or two before, and was still novel and limited in its diffusion before World War I".

...the non-Jewish residents of Palestine tried to don several different identities. First, they attempted to become Ottomans. This attempt failed after the defeat of the Ottoman army and subsequent withdrawal of Ottoman authority from Palestine. As Khalidi wrote, "in a period of a few years, Ottomanism as an ideology went from being one of the primary sources of identification for Palestinians, to having no apparent impact at all". Then came the turn of the Syrian identity that did not last long either. When the French crushed the two-year-old independent Syrian state in 1920, the elite of the Palestinian Arabs decided to change orientation again. Khalidi quotes the nationalist leader Musa Kazim Pasa al-Husayni, who said, "Now, after the recent events in Damascus, we have to effect a complete change in our plans here. Southern Syria no longer exists. We must defend Palestine".



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Answer 4

Well no, the Palestinians are not Israelis, as they haven't received Israeli citizenship. Mark, a country does not need a constitution to be considered a legal country; personally I think it's more important to guarantee personal freedoms and rights than a constitution that says that only one group is allowed - but that's just me. And to the poster who seems to have pressed caps lock by accident, I don't see how "hiding behind guns" is more cowardly than hiding behind civilians, but hey- that's just me.
Back to the question: I believe you just did, but it doesn't seem like you are right.

Answer 5

ROFL...I would like to kindly invite you to learn about true Israeli politics concerning Palestinians.
Your right there isnt a Palestine anymore, it was stolen right from under them.
Sickening isnt it.

Answer 6

Maybe then Israel should allow the Palestinians the full range of freedoms that they currently do not get...i.e. freedom of movement.

Your type of question is just asking for nasty responses, and is a reason why that land is still fought over.

Answer 7

Palestinians rather be called Palestinians and we should respect that.

Answer 8

Can you define Israel without constitution. so far there is no legal country called Israel.
To Michael J is Israel a kingdom or a republic?

Answer 9

i dont understand when people compare jews to nazis..(comment above)
it's just soo funny dont you think?
stop the ignorance!!!
how cen arab people use the zani propaganda against jews semit'es people????
they alsso like jews... same tree branch..
so please stop offending your self with pure ignorance...