What Palestinians?

Submitted by Yuval Brandstetter MD (Israel), May 6, 2010 at 10:46

"a Jewish-Palestinian community in Israel claiming to be "engaged in educational work for peace, equality, and understanding between the two peoples,"

Arabs, my dear daniel. The only true Palestinians are Jewish (my parents, my inlaws) while those Arabs who have taken up this appelation are simply Arabs. They are no more a separate people than Americans of Italian extraction, or Americnas of Irish extraction or swedish extraction. If anything those ethnicities are far more disparate than Arabs who term themselves Palestinians are different from Egyptian, syrian, Jordanian or Iraqui Arabs. Please stick to the facts. Neve Shalom is a Jewish Arab community proving that when Jews and Arabs live together, the only naRrative that emerges is the Arab one, on pain of death or expulsion.

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