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Here it is folks. Like it or not, it is what it is.
That's the million dollar question huh.
They are Arabs and DNA shows that Jews and Arabs are related.
Epiphenom: The shared genetic heritage of Jews and Palestinians
Yes, but, what's a palestinian?
It only became Palestine when the LN (League of Nations) granted it as a temporary mandate to Great Britain who promptly gave 2/3 of it to the Hashemite Arabs (yep, same tribe) forming the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The rump of Palestine was divided between the majority Jewish area and majority Muslim area by the UN with the Jewish part being called Israel and the Muslim part retaining the Palestine name.
Bottom line: there was never a nation called Palestine nor was there ever a nation comprised of the area of Palestine called another name. The closest thing today is The Palestinian Authority which has been blocked by a rebel HAMAS government in Gaza from forming a country and, one could argue, Jordan, comprising 2/3 of Palestine (it was half when they invaded the area that was to be a free Palestine in 1948 and annexed the west bank until defeated by Israel in the sixties).