[montag813]

Does this mean the First Americans (the ones who followed similar funerary practices all up and down the east coast of North and South America) were Jewish ? Palestinian ?

There is no such thing as a "Palestinian". Remember well that Arafat was born in Cairo, and his last two PM-designees were born in Syria and Jordan--all well before the "creation" of Israel in 1948.

[genefromjersey]

If there's "no such thing as Palestinian",who on earth were those folks occupying the turf during the British mandate ?
You know : the ones who were so opposed to Jewish refugees coming in from Europe prior to the UN recognition of an Israeli state ? The ones who had a Grand Mufti who advocated resumption of the Holocaust ???