“Palestinians were there for generations upon generations…”
A favorite Pally myth, yet demonstrably erroneous. THINK: If it were true, how would those multitudinous ‘generations’ have gotten past the anopheles mosquito, whose saliva carries the MALARIA parasite, which generates the deadly fever that had nearly depopulated the countryside for hundreds of years?
The 1921 Annual Report of the UK-administered, League of Nations Mandate’s Dept of Health starkly noted that:
“Malaria stands out as by far the most important disease in Palestine. For centuries it has decimated the population … an effective bar to the development and settlement of large tracts of fertile lands … it assumes epidemic characters in certain areas, wiping out the populations of whole villages in a few months’ time … few regions in the country are actually free from it…”
The TRUTH of the matter (just in case a paltry thing like the truth actually DOES matter) is that those who today like to call themselves ‘Palestinians’ are, in reality, the descendants of a few recent (mostly 20th-century) generations of Arabic-speaking persons who had migrated to geographic Palestine from ALL OVER THE MIDEAST (the Hauran, the Maghreb, the Sinai, Mesopotamia, the Gulf Region, the Balkans, the Arabian Peninsula, etc), primarily during the 60-yr period of 1880-1940:
— all of them in search of the good-paying jobs (and decent working & living conditions) that were being offered, at the time, by the halutzim, Zionist pioneers in Palestine, who needed a great deal of manpower assistance, in those days, in reclaiming the country’s nutrient-depleted soil from its grimly-ongoing desertification, and in reforesting the rocky, treeless, eroded hillsides, as well as in draining the fetid swamps:
— which were the breeding grounds for the [aforesaid] anopheles mosquito, carrier of the malaria parasite, which, as I noted earlier, had made life impossible throughout the countryside for centuries, and which, in turn, had long allowed the place to fall into a humanly inhospitable, hopeless ruin, where even livestock could not thrive.