| do so in order to persuade a misinformed world that they are distinct nationality and that PALESTINE is their ancestral homeland. but they are not distinct nationality at all. they are the same-in language, custom, and tribal and family ties-as the ARABS of SYRIA,JORDAN, and beyond. there is no more difference between the PALESTINIANS and other arabs of those countries that there between, say, the citizens of minnesota and those of wisconsin.what`s more, many palestinians, or their immediate ancestors, came to the area attracted by the PROSPERITY created by the JEWS, what previously had been pretty much of a WASTELAND.until 1967, most of those who now call themselves palestinians were happy with their JORDANIAN citizenship and with calling themselves JORDANIANS. |
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