Are today's Palestinians immigrants from many nations?

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The short answer to your question is "no". The evidence lies in some understanding of the history of the region (which I study as an Arabist) and a look at some of the linguistic aspects.

It is widely known that the Levant was the terminus of the Silk Road in the west. What is typically lost on many people is that that trade often involved the vast movement of people. Similarly, you can find many people with foreign surnames throughout the rest of the middle east.

Linguistically, the Palestinians have their own dialect of Arabic that is divergent enough from the dialects of its neighbors to suggest that it is quite old. One aspect of this is the use of the Sheen to negate verbs.

None of this is to say that Palestinians are Arabs in the strictest sense, either. Many people who study the area will readily admit to you that as you get further from the Hijaz, the people you encounter become less and less Arab and more; Assyrian, Chaldean, Akkadian, Kurdish, Turkman, or Armenian.

Also, if Palestine were to be unoccupied by Arabs until the 1800's (if I understand the quote correctly), then how can one account for all of the accounts of the Crusades wherein the Normans were fighting Arabs? What also of the Mamluks who occupied the lands of Palestine and subjected its Arab population prior to Ottoman conquest?

Palestine has been occupied by Semitic peoples (both Arabs and Jews) since the beginning of the Bible and there is no interlude to its continuous population by such peoples. The only itinerant residents of Palestinian lands have been the Israelites, who took long hiatuses and returned after periods of exile (those which did choose to return and not stay in their land of exile).

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What about Hamas Ministers claim that Palestinians Just Arabs Saudis, Egyptians, Sudanese? He does not any his origin What differs Arabs From Palestinian?
Hamas Official: There are no Palestinian people. We are Egyptian Sudanese Saudis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-umTdeh_bQ&t=7s Arab Immigration to West Palestine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ARecp7pvo Arab Women's Union of Ramallah – 1928 Note Not Palestinian https://i.stack.imgur.com/32YXA.jpg Identity card issued by the British authorities to an Arab in Jerusalem, 1930. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_de_J%C3%A9rusalem#/media/File:Palestine_Jerusalem_al-Maliha_NK27662.jpg Inventing the "Palestinian Nation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=42&v=aYMviMHH0nc

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The answer is twofold.....it is both yes....and no.

Yes, when looking at the long history of Palestine-(that is to say, from the time "Palestine", as a national name, came into historical existence dating back to the 130's AD/CE and continuing into the present-day), many ethnic groups conquered, settled and assimilated into Palestine. These groups include-(though are not limited to), Bedouins, (possibly North African Berbers), Romans, (Byzantine era) Greeks, Arabs, Syrians, Lebanese, Armenians, Egyptians, West European Crusaders-(i.e. Spaniards, Franks and Britons), Italians-(most likely Venetians) and Turks. There were also Jewish Palestinians-(that is to say, a very small number of Israeli Jews who never left the Middle East after the failed Second Revolt, though centuries later, were forcibly converted to Islam, as well as a very small community of Israeli Jews who successfully resisted forced Islamization, as well as Arabization and subsequently, were able to maintain and retain their Jewish religious and ethnic identity). Again, this list only chronicles the years, 130's AD/CE, into the early 20th century and does not include the earlier eras which predate the name, "Palestine".

However, my educated guess-(since I do not have the genetic/DNA information available to work from), is that most Palestinians, are probably ethno-racially Arab and Semitic...that is to say, due to the largely uninterrupted 1400 year presence of Islamic and Arabian culture, the Palestinians, as a people, have a greater ethno-racial relationship/kinship to neighboring Semitic and Arab peoples versus the non-Semitic peoples listed above.

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