RE: Should the Palestinians have an independent state?
March 20, 2015 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2015 at 10:49 am by Dystopia.)
Indeed you are right
I don't think both states should be unified because it seems to go against the people's will, and there's nothing worse than going against the people's will in subjects so important as national identity - It would equal annexation in my opinion. They should be able to coexist
Quote:A genetic study has suggested that a majority of the Muslims of Palestine, inclusive of Arab citizens of Israel, could be descendants of Christians, Jews and other earlier inhabitants of the southern Levant whose core may reach back to prehistoric times. A study of high-resolution haplotypes demonstrated that a substantial portion of Y chromosomes of Israeli Jews (70%) and of Palestinian Muslim Arabs (82%) belonged to the same chromosome pool.
Quote:In recent years, many genetic studies have demonstrated that, at least paternally, most of the various Jewish ethnic divisions and the Palestinians – and in some cases other Levantines – are genetically closer to each other than the Palestinians or European Jews to non-Jewish Europeans.[111]
One DNA study by Nebel found genetic evidence in support of historical records that "part, or perhaps the majority" of Muslim Palestinians descend from "local inhabitants, mainly Christians and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD".[111] They also found substantial genetic overlap between Muslim Palestinians and Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, though with some significant differences that might be explainable by the geographical isolation of the Jews and by immigration of Arab tribes in the first millennium
I don't think both states should be unified because it seems to go against the people's will, and there's nothing worse than going against the people's will in subjects so important as national identity - It would equal annexation in my opinion. They should be able to coexist
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you