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So are Palestinians mostly just ethnic Jews who converted to Islam
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Anonymous 9w

Ethnic Canaanites but yeah. Of course many have descent from migrants from other regions (Kurdistan, Armenia, Arabia, Egypt, West Africa, etc) since Palestine was part of larger empires for most of its history.

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Anonymous 9w

No

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Anonymous 9w

Not exactly, they’re more related to the Arabs who settled in the region after the Rashidun Caliphate conquered the area in the 630s but there was some intermixing between the conquerors and locals who converted to Islam. However it was more common for the Jews to refuse to convert opting to instead pay the jizya and simply not fully integrate into Muslim society

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

Sorry this is objectively wrong

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

Things got even more fun when the Turks, the Byzantines, and the Crusaders moved in because it turned the area into one of constant conflict. Personally I subscribe to the theory that the reason the Middle East has been so unstable for large periods of its history is because it stands at the crossroads of Asia and Africa and the constant movement of people and ideas creates a fertile breeding ground for fighting

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

They’ve got Canaanite ancestry but more Arab ancestry because that’s who the early Muslims were. It obviously varies from family to family but the existence of Levantine Arab as an identity separate from Canaanite means it’s a different category. The defining characteristic of the Levantine Arab is the fact that they have a healthy mix of Canaanite blood when compared to their Peninsular and North African brethren but they’re still more Arab than Canaanite

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

That’s not the academic consensus

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

There’s not a huge difference between the Arabs and Canaanites, given both groups are Semitic, but differences exist

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

Also, there was never a unified Canaanite identity to begin with, it’s a term applied to closely related tribes that were often at odds. It makes sense that after being conquered by Arabs and having Arabic language and culture promoted to them over centuries that they would begin to see themselves as Arab. Remember that Canaanites used to speak Hebrew and Phoenician, then switched to Aramaic after being conquered by the Neo Assyrians and then tacked Greek on there under the Macedonians

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

Yeah, I mean the Old Testament is basically a story about how the Israelites fought with their cousins about who had the coolest God

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

And given the fact that Arabic was a Semitic language not that different from Aramaic or Hebrew or Phoenician probably didn’t hurt

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

I still don’t see your point. The academic consensus is that Palestinians are mostly descended from the Canaanites. I don’t see how Arabs being similar negates that

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