The Best Proof the “Palestinian” Arabs Don’t Belong in Israel Was Exposed by Their Own Names!
There are hundreds of thousands of Arabs living in various cities all across Judea and Samaria – such as Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin, and Jericho. They all have roots in the Middle East, but very few actually have roots that go back to the Land of Israel for more than a generation or two. Nearly all of them come from families that moved to the Land of Israel in order to earn more money and have a better quality of life than they had in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, or Saudi Arabia. But how can this be proven?
It is amazingly simple to prove. Just look at their names.
The names of the Arabs themselves bear out the fact that an enormous number of these Arabs came from countries that surround the Land of Israel. Dr. Mordechai Kedar has been a leading expert on Arabs for decades. His spellbinding analysis comes from his thorough understanding of Arab culture and history. Many of his opinions and theories are now being put into practice as Israeli policy by the present Israeli government.
The fact is that the Land of Israel was rather empty till the end of the 19th century. There were not that many Jews nor Arabs there. Mark Twain, the one-of-a-kind visitor that came in the mid 19th century, termed most of what he saw in the Land of Isreael as a “wasteland.” That is exactly correct. Lots of empty mountains dotted by a few towns and a handful of small cities. The Ottoman Empire ruled in the Land of Israel for around four centuries and nearly nothing of significance transpired in terms of the building up of the Land of Israel for most of their reign.
Only in around the year 1880 did the Jewish trickle of families that had been returning to the Land of Israel turn into a bit of a stream. Tens of families came on Aliyah together. That was considred a major event. But even then, the few new settlements did not really take off and become a major movement until twenty or thirty years later at the turn of the 20th century.
Things began to take off before and especially after World War I. The massive suffering that the Jewish communities in Russia and Europe experienced before, during, and after World War I fueled much of the Zionist movement to return to the Land of the Bible. The winds of nationalism had been blowing since the middle of the 19th century and they also impacted the Jews that were swept up by the new norms.
The massive waves of Aliyah saw thousands of Jews arriving as opposed to tens of Jews returning. By the early 1930’s, there were already hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Land of Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs joined from neighboring areas of the Ottoman Empire. Instead of a situation where there were just tens of thousands of Jews in a few cities and tens of thousands of Jews scattered in a few isolated settlements, the numbers had doubled and then tripled in a matter of 20-30 years. But the Arab numbers grew even more.
No more than perhaps 10-20% of the Jews or the Arabs that lived in the Land of Israel in the 1930’s were born there. They were there as a result of mass migration. That is why the historic right to the Land of the Jewish people is so important as compared to the much weaker claim that is often espoused by Arabs of living in the area for generations. It is simply not true or grossly exaggerated.
Neither most Jews nor most Arabs living in the State of Israel today have been there for more than 1-2 generations. They are predominantly the descendants of Polish, Russian, Rumanian, Moroccan, Iraqi, Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, or Saudi Arabian immigrants.
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