The history -- who ruled Palestine?

In 1978 Palestinian guerrillas, from their base in Lebanon , launched an air raid on Israel; in retaliation, Israel sent troops into S Lebanon to occupy a strip 4-6 mi (6-10 km) deep and thus protect Israel's border. Eventually a UN peacekeeping force was set up there, but occasional fighting continued. In 1982 Israel launched a massive attack to destroy all military bases of the Palestine Liberation Organization in S Lebanon and, after a 10-week siege of the Muslim sector of West Beirut , a PLO stronghold, forced the Palestinians to accept a U.S.-sponsored plan whereby the PLO guerrillas would evacuate Beirut and go to several Arab countries that had agreed to accept them. Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 1985 but continues to maintain a Lebanese-Christian-policed buffer zone north of its border.

Have my eyes gone bad, or was the year 1973 left out?

Hey this is PC time now, sneak attacks during religious holidays don't count.

"1964 - Palestine Liberation Organization founded"

Note that this was three years BEFORE the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, 16 years before Israel's brutal incursions into Lebanon, and 18 years before the refugee-camp massacres (by Christian phalangists, not Israeli soldiers) which some revisionists cite as the Palestinians' chief grievances against Israel. But the fact is that the Palestinians' chief grievance is the existence of Israel under ANY conceivable border arrangement.

Palestinians are Semites, genetically virtually indistinguishable from Jews, both Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews.

I don't believe being of Semitic origin is true of a great many of the Ashkenazi who were actually Caucasians and who had adopted Judaism for largely political reasons during the period of the Khazari kingdom.

The Khazars lived in the area of the southern steppes of Russia down through the Caucuses region, almost to Turkey. It was from this population that the large percentage of European Jews originated genetically, not from the Semitic peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. Hence, the same non-Semitic Khazari Jews' [Ashkenazi] descendents would appear to have no legitimate "genetic" claim to some "Semitic homeland" in that region at all.

The Sephardic Jews, being historically Semitic, would. However, it seems that they are not really that much into Zionism. This situation is discussed further here below in addition to other places: Khazari Jewish History

I got my info from Science Magazine:

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/97/12/6769.pdf

Re your # 1....some facts:

1. Approximately 90%, plus or minus, of Jews who reside in the land called Israel are of a non-semetic genetic heretige. They came to Palestine largely from Russia and Poland after WWII and have physical features dramatically different from their truly semetic Jewish "brothers".

2.These people arrived into the territory provided through the UN at the end of WWII largely as the resultof militant campains by Western and Eastern European Zionists, as well as their North American cohorts, acting between the two major wars. The goal was to establish a Jewish State in the Holy Land.

3. The minority population of semetic Jews in that region have resided there, along with semetic Arabs, since the Bronze age. Their genetic commonality is well established and accepted by the non-Jewish world.

4. The UN acted to establish a "homeland" and not a State for these non-semetic Jews who were displaced prior to, during, and after WWII. The UN stipulated that this "homeland" was not to be a separate country exclusively for the arriving Jews, nor even a commonwealth, but a place where they could live with the semetic Arabs and Jews who had resided there since the early Bronze age.

5. The waves of Jewish immigrants arriving during the past 55 years have skills, culture, and technical capabilites far beyond those of the pre-existing Arab and Jews who had lived there prior to their arrival.

6.Jewish Scholars have vainly tried to prove, to the non-Jewsih intellectual world among others, that a common origin (beyond religious faith) clearly existed for their semetic and non-semetic populations. This effort has failed.

7. It would appear that most Americans want Israel to survive and prosper but not at the expense of genocide. No one, including the Jewish leadership, seems to have a solution to the ongoing war. Many of the posts herein are related to "pushing them ( the Palestinians)all into the sea" and the like. That stupidity won't wash in the real world, particularly as China and North Korea bring the Arab capabilty of mass destruction up to speed in the not too distant future.

The foregoing heresy? I don't think so.

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