Romney Comments on Palestinians Draw Criticism

New York Times ^ | July 30, 2012 | ASHLEY PARKER

[tet68]

‘Palestinian’ contributions:
Hijacking
Suicide vests.
Bus bombings

[AlanGreenSpam]

Idiots like the Palistineans and the American Democraps love to wield the race card.

But in many cases it’s not about RACISM - it’s about CULTURALISM.

For example, I don’t happen to be racist against American blacks and treat them the same as anyone else when I meet them. HOWEVER, there are many things I truly despise about American Black CULTURE (Hateful rap music, deadbeat dads, violence, racial snobbery and victimhood hand in hand).

And laziness. Yes, laziness. When I see how hard other minorities work, like Mexican laborers here in California and then you see an inner city Black punk, sayin’ “I can’t get me no job.” In general American blacks have a culture of entitlement and that entitlement has bred a culture of abject laziness.

So people can call me a “CULTURIST,” but not a “RACIST.”

It’s important for conservatives to change the language of debate and this concept of apologetically stating, I’m not racist, I’m culturist” - will be effective.

[Verginius Rufus]

If "Palestinian" is taken to mean all non-Jews living in the area between the Jordan River/Dead Sea and the Mediterranean as of 1917 and their descendants (mostly Arabic-speaking but some Armenians, Circassians and perhaps others), they are probably a mix of all the populations which have lived in the area since antiquity--Canaanites, Philistines (immigrants from the Aegean?), Israelites, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, etc. The Christian population of Palestine in the late Roman period was probably partly descended from Jews who had converted.

Even if the Arabs imposed their language, it doesn't necessarily involve a large influx of people from Arabia--compare how the Spanish language took hold in parts of Latin America where the Spanish colonists were outnumbered by the indigenous population.

So DNA studies should show some kinship between Israeli Jews and at least some of the Palestinian Arabs.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

A Jewish girl who had lived there told me as much.

She said, “It’s ridiculous, we’re all Palestinians...it’s a place.”

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Armenians, Circassians...Canaanites, Philistines ...Israelites, Greeks, Romans, Arabs...Jews who had converted...people from Arabia

Yassar Arafat was an Egyptian.

[Verginius Rufus]

Arafat was born in Cairo but at least according to Wikipedia, his father was from Gaza and his mother from Jerusalem and he spent part of his childhood in Jerusalem with members of her family. His father’s mother was Egyptian.

[csmusaret]

How we got here....http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-really-happened.html