#5 The Truth Behind Israel's Claims to Israel - Who Owns (or should have rights) to the Holy Land? Racial purity is a con.

The people of ancient Israel, far from being of one ethnic stock, resulted chiefly from the fusion of the indigenous Canaanites and the incoming Aramaean tribes, with a sprinkling of other ethnic groups as well.

What joins all these disparate groups together is the fact that they are descendants of people who have long inhabited the Holy Land and they now find that they have been dispossessed of the land which they took to be rightfully theirs.

SHOOT: The whole concept of racial purity is a dangerous and misleading idea.

In the case both of the ancient Israelites and of the present day Palestinians, it was land possession which gave them their unity.

clipped from www.westarinstitute.org A Melting Pot It is somewhat ironic to find that if we go back three thousand years we find a very similar phenomenon. As shown in the first article, the people of ancient Israel, far from being of one ethnic stock, resulted chiefly from the fusion of the indigenous Canaanites and the incoming Aramaean tribes, with a sprinkling of other ethnic groups as well. There were pockets left from the retreating Hittite Empire, as the story of Uriah the Hittite so clearly illustrates. And did not Solomon boast of his many foreign wives? In the case both of the ancient Israelites and of the present day Palestinians, it was land possession which gave them their unity. It must be fully conceded that the Palestinians are a very mixed group of people. Although the Palestinians all speak Arabic that is simply because that has been the language of the whole area from Egypt to Iraq from about the eighth century. Each group of Palestinians traces its ancestry over differing lengths of time.