Nothing that remarkable Genie Joe, I’m afraid. Today’s Palestinians are a mix of every civilization and colonial power that came to the Levant over the course of thousands of years. Today’s population are the descendants of the people who stayed and assimilated the changing cultural and religious influences and converted to new religions. No colonial force – up until the modern state of Israel – attempted to ethnically cleanse the entire region of the indigenous population and set up military check points, death squads and false narratives to in order to block the process of cultural assimilation, influence and change
