Palestinian Climate Change

Here is the draft of it that I saved. Final version was longer. Please excuse double posting if that version appears later. Thanks.
Larry,
It’s not a fable but a fact. Of course they can lay a claim to the land which their families have occupied for hundreds if not thousands of years. The Palestinian Christian towns cleansed by Israel in the 1948 war to connect West Jerusalem with the coast had, for instance, been Christian since the 1st century. St. Agapius of Palestine was a native of Gaza, martyred along with seven others during Diocletian’s Great Persecution, c. AD 303. Even earlier examples exist, such as St. George, from Lydda, now Lod, site of Ben Gurion Airport. As you may know, one of the most infamous episodes in the 1948 Palestinian Diaspora was the exodus from Lydda and nearby Ramle of 50,000 to 70,000 Arabs, mostly Christian, expelled when Israeli troops captured the towns in July that year.
Of course Palestinians are related to Syrian Arabs. Of course they speak the Levantine dialect of Arabic. So what? Their ancestors spoke the Semitic languages Phoenician, Canaanite, Hebrew and Aramaic, as well as the Indo-European tongue of the Philistines. Three thousand years ago, Arabic and Hebrew were dialects of the same West Semitic language, and, as the OT shows, Arabs already lived then in the Holy Land.
That they speak Arabic now doesn’t mean that they aren’t descended from the biblical inhabitants of Palestine. Most people in the British Isles are descended from ancient Britons, to include the Paleolithic inhabitants, but the vast majority speak English, the language of the Germanic invaders, as modified by later French invaders. While some speak Welsh and Gaelic, no one still speaks whatever was spoken there in 1200 BC.
The majority of Israelis, by contrast, are of European (Ashkenazi) or North African (Sephardic) ancestry, plus some from Iran, and of course the ancestors of Eastern European Jews were mainly Khazars.
I have a lot of respect for what Israelis have achieved, and have myself gained from their work, having for a decade consulted for an Israeli biotech. But facts are facts.

David,
The Palestinians have been no more invented than the Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians, Iraqis, Egyptians, Sudanese, Libyans, Tunisians, Algerians and Moroccans, the boundaries of which majority Arabic-speaking states were also drawn by imperial powers. If the borders were based upon Arabic dialects, yes, then there would be a single Levantine state, a Mesopotamian state, including Aramaic and Mandean speakers but ideally not Kurds or Turkomen, a large Maghrebian state, including Berber speakers, and something like Egypt, the Arabic of which contains various related sub-dialects of accents, plus of course the Coptic Christian language.
The difference in the case of Palestine is that along with drawing the borders, the imperial powers, Turkey and Britain, also permitted millions of non-Muslim, non-Christian and non-Arabic European and later, under Israel, North African, immigrants to settle in that small area, displacing up to a million of its indigenous Muslim and Christian population and driving them into refugee camps.

David,
Talk about gross misrepresentation!
Jewish settlers in Palestine moved into the territory allotted to or captured by Israel. To compare that with permanent refugee status in other countries would be ludicrous if not obscene.
Israel forcibly drove people from their homes in land their families had occupied for thousands of years, and have not been allowed back. To say, that’s war doesn’t cut it. Before Arab armies came to the rescue of Palestinians, Jewish terrorists had been driving Arabs from their land for decades. During the war, tens or hundreds of thousands of Europeans flooded into Israel. The only competent army among the newly independent Arab states was Jordan’s Arab Legion, which intentionally didn’t attack into land assigned by the UN to Israel, because he hoped to benefit from the Jewish state.
To this day, Arab Israelis are third class citizens. Israel still has no written constitution because it would have to enshrine theocratic rule, with Jewish Israelis as first class citizens, Samaritans, Druze and Christians second class and Muslims as third class, based upon their military status, for example.
Israel’s right to exist is the same as any other conqueror’s, but that hardly affords it any moral high ground. Sorry, but you’ve bought into Israeli propaganda, designed for consumption in the US. Israelis in Israel know the score.