Nadene Goldfoot
DNA testing of Palestinians has started and has turned up evidence of Palestinian Arabs coming from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq; neighbors of Israel.
This goes along with the research of a reporter many years ago who was Joan Peters, who wrote the 1984 book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine. Her research claimed that many Arabs, later known as Palestinians, actually migrated to the area from neighboring countries during the19th and 20th centuries, rather than having deep, long-standing roots there.
Joan Peters was Joan Friedman before she had married. Yes, she was Jewish which gave her the impetus to dig for information like an archaeologist would do to a spot of land. She was not an indifferent news reporter. Yet she was a true reporter and told it like it was, the truth. Read her book and you will see. "In the 1970s and early 1980s, Peters wrote for magazines such as Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader, was a consultant in the creation of CBS news documentaries in 1973 about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and provided commentary on the subject for PBS."
There never has been a country or state called Palestine. The name comes from the Romans who named what the Jews called Eretz Yisrael, Palestine. The reason they did that was that it was for the Jews' worst enemy at that time; the Philistines. "Following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt around 135 CE, The Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed the province of Judea to Syria Palaestina (Latin: Palestina). This action aimed to sever the connection between the Jewish people and their historic homeland after extensive rebellions, often considered a punitive measure to diminish Jewish presence." (Egypt used to do the same thing to their walls, where they displayed their history in pictures. They would erase it if that present Pharaoh wasn't in agreement.)
The Romans had fought against the Judeans (name where Jews came from) and had won in 70 CE, the culmination of THE BATTLE of the century. Such a battle; I'm not sure there had ever been such a horrid one. The Romans were able to cause severe starvation first, weakening the people, then taking them as slaves or just killing them. Those who could, escaped, of course, and there were a few.
Peters argued that the land was largely under-populated before Jewish immigration began, and that the influx of Arab immigration was driven by the economic development brought by early Jewish settlers. I also found that they needed workers in building of which much was happening. It showed a map like this one for someone else
A young Palestinian lady took a DNA test which told her she was from Jordan and Syria. The map above is from FTDNA of another person. The Palestinian thought there was and error; to her it should have said, Palestine! She and most likely all other "Palestinians" have been deluded to think so. Finally, DNA is opening people's minds to realize that Joan Peters was correct in her analysis of the Palestinian Arabs. "Based on 2019 reports, Palestinian-American illustrator Marguerite Dabaie expressed surprise and disappointment after a 23andMe DNA test indicated a mix of ancestry that differed from her family's understanding, highlighting the emotional complexity. 23andMe Example: In some examples, a Palestinian's DNA results may show high percentages of "Levantine" (often labeled by companies as Lebanon or Syria) because DNA databases cluster them by regional proximity.
Genetic studies, including those on modern ancestry tests (e.g., 23andMe, AncestryDNA) and academic research, frequently show that Palestinians have high genetic affinity with other Levantine populations (Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians) and Middle Eastern groups
Limitations are being broken when one reads what DNA testing has accomplished when applied to mummies in Egypt today. It's amazing how they are using to pinpoint the name of the mummies and who their parents and relatives were in the mix of this particular one.
Jews living in the same cities and towns of the Arabs were also called Palestinians. That name had stuck. It was even on their visas. The British had accepted the name when they were awarded the 30 year mandate.
Then on May 14, 1948, the Jews were awarded the land and called it Israel after their ancient name they had before 721 BCE when the Assyrians had attacked and taken away several hundred of their best people.
