I disagree w @DeanObeidallah on other things, but this he gets right, and it echos my experience/familyhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/do-palestinians-really-exist …
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That would come as quite a shock to my father, my grandparents, and all my family that still live in Gaza. It’s not a ‘made up designation’ they are a distinct Arab sub-culture w their own food, vernacular, etc. Whether you accept it or not is irrelevant. It’s still reality.https://twitter.com/JJCrosstrainers/status/1041830201611517952 …
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I think many of those who said that, just mix up two matters. There was no state of such name (Palestine) in history (at least yet) and that all people who lived in British Mandate of Palestine were mostly referred to as Palestinians (was not applied just to Arab population).
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Yes, that’s true. But would ppl say Yazidis or Kurds don’t exist? Many groups exist though they don’t have a state.
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And why is left-wing to say Palestine for the Palestinians but right-wing to say England for the English?
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Im down with using the term Palestinians. As long as Jews are included as Palestinians...they were there too folks. And so were Druze and several other ethnic and religious groups :-)
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Abbas & Mohsen of PLO do this distinct identity no favors in saying its a fabrication* Mohsen 1964 "Pal identity exists only for tactical reasons Once we have secured our rights in all of Palestine we would not postpone the unification of Jordan and Palestine for even a second"
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Human rights apply to all humans. Full stop.
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