Re: Newt Gingrich calls Palestinians “invented” people
At that time it was more Islamic vs Christian identity in crusades.
As for claiming the Palestinians being arabs thats not true either. Palestinians fall under the category of “arabized” arabs, those who became arabs due to arab conquests like egyptions, syrians, sudanese etc. They are people of the land. And another irony is that majority of Palestinians today are more closely related genetically to jews than arabs.
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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”.[SUP][113]](Palestinians - Wikipedia)[/SUP] 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 or by immigration of Arab tribes in the first millennium.