Incredibly dumb response, even from an ignorant”cowboy”, a veritable farrago of nonsensical memes. DNA does not give one sovereign title to a country – that’s a standard worthy of the Nazis that is applied by no nation in the world. If you actually believed your own vomit you’d have left America and moved back to Europe. Get back to us when you and your fellow “cowboys” have done so, and not until.
The fact is that Jews do have a proven common Levantine origin, and the science is supported by Behar et al who refuted the nonsense promoted by Eran Elhaik who based his erroneous conclusions on their data. This is also confirmed by the existence of the “Cohen” chromosome which leads back to a common ancestor 6200 years ago and similar findings for Levy’s.
Similarly the historic record for “Palestinians” shows a highly diverse origin from the Russian Caucasus, Byzantines, Iran, Algeria, Greece, Egypt, Frankish invaders, Balkans who fled the shrinking Ottoman empire in the 1910s, Albanians, Sudanese (imported as slaves), Syria, Kurdistan and so forth. The famed “Palestinian kefiyah” is not even Palestinian, the design and coloration originated in Iraq. Mahmoud Abbas is a 2nd or 3rd generation Kurd. Saeb Erekat came from the Howeitat tribe, founded by an Egyptian who settled in the Karak Sanjak, a region corresponding to what is today’s Jordan. It’s a fascinating origin story that gets ignored in favor of a faux mythology of sedentary farmers and goat herders who lived in the same location on top of the ruins of ancient Jewish and Greek settlements “from time immemorial” claiming to be “Canaanites” while retaining nothing of Canaanite culture or belief. Why? Because “Palestinians” felt that they needed to fabricate their own mythology to compete with the actual history of the Jewish people.
Both the DNA argument and the “from time immemorial” argument are irrelevant. Large #s of Europeans, particularly in Spain and Portugal have “Jewish DNA” as they are descended from (largely forced) converts. They are not considered to be Jews and could only become Jews by undergoing formal conversion, same as any other non-Jew. More than 50% of Israel’s Jewish population, like “Palestinians” have a middle eastern origin having been forced to flee from Muslim countries due to systemic oppression.
National identity is a meme, not a gene. Historically Zionism came first long before the formation of a Palestinian national identity which began as pan-Arab racism towards Jews in the early 20th century. The earliest poll we can find is the King-Crane report of 1919. Only 6 out of 1505 respondents favored a Palestinian state, less than 1/2 of 1%. 80% preferred a unitary Syria under King Faisal who hailed from what is today Saudi Arabia. And from 1948-1967 there was no significant movement calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state. As PLO Commander Zuhair Mohsen confessed in 1972, “The Palestinian people does not exist…. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today of the existence of a Palestinian people.”