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PALESTINE ARAB CONGRESS
Now facts:
HAIFA, 1920
The third congress opened on 4 December. It was attended by 36 delegates, including Sheik Suleiman al-Taji Al-Faruqi and head of the Catholic community Bullus Shehadeh. The congress was opened by Haifa's mufti, Muhammad Murad. Recently deposed mayor of Jerusalem Musa al-Husayni was elected president and chairman of the nine-member executive committee, a post he held until his death in 1934. The congress called for Palestine to be ruled under identical terms as those of the Mandate of Iraq, with a parliament elected by a one-citizen-one-vote system. Other resolutions:
- Called for Palestine to be part of the independent Arab state promised in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence. Calls for unity with Syria were dropped, since the area was now under French control.
- Condemned the notion of a homeland for the Jewish people.
- Objected to the recognition of the Hebrew as an official language.
- Opposed Jewish immigration.
- Declared the British administration illegal, since the League of Nations had not yet reached a decision about the status of the territory.
Some delegates, such as Daoud Isa, complained that the congress was not sufficiently radical. After the congress the executive committee met British High Commissioner Herbert Samuel, who insisted that they accept British policy on the Jewish national homeland to receive official recognition. The British claim that the congress was not representative led to a broad campaign by the Muslim-Christian Associations to raise public awareness.
Palestine Arab Congress | Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing - eBooks | Read eBooks onlineRoccoR take note. The Palestinians had to buy into the settler colonial project to be recognized. You have always falsely portrayed the Palestinians on this.
Did You notice there's no notice of "Palestinians" even in the 3rd Arab congress?
It's very convenient to portray Arabian tribes as indigenous while neglecting Palestinian Jews who lived there longer.
It's the Palestine "Arab" Congress, not "Arabian". You confuse Arabic speaking people, who adopted the language of the Arabian rulers with Arabians. They are descended from people who were predominately Christians before the Arabian invasion, hence the participation of the remaining unconverted Christian Palestinians in the Palestine Congresses. Your old dog won't hunt.
As much as this is what You'd like to believe, the reality is that Arabian tribal culture is at the center of Arab street in Palestine exactly like in Yemen. With villages like Nabi Saleh where only the Tamimi tribe lives, and elections for tribal leaders independent from political parties.
Palestinian Arabs keep to their Arabian roots and traditions very openly, just not in English.
Having lived as a child and worked as an adult in Arab-speaking and Arabian countries I can confirm that you are full of crap. An Egyptian (or Palestinian) has almost nothing in common with a Saudi except for religion and language (only if they are educated and both speak formal Arabic). While I was stationed in Saudi Arabia as a young army officer (U.S. Army) we had many Palestinians working for us as third country nationals (TCNs) who handled much of the clerical work. They were very western compared to the Saudis. They wore western clothes (no thobes) and in private would agree with us that the Saudis were extremely strange and backward people. As a kid in Tunisia (my dad was military attache' there) the Tunisians were also far more western and generically mediteranean than any Arabian/Bedouin. In Palestine the Arabians are the Bedouins, who don't consider themselves Palestinians. In all places where the Arabians ruled, the local people would imitate the culture of the ruling Arabians, even claim some familial ties to the Arabians. That is true in all societies that were under foreign rule. The Romanians today claim to be descendants of the Romans that ruled Dacia for a time. In fact, though the language is a Latin derivative, Romanians have very little Roman ancestry. Your dog won't hunt.
Yaalla Lawrence of Arabia halas with this pretentious BS.
Tunisian indigenous tribes don't bear Arabian names like the tribes in Palestine.
Mind You, we're talking about Asia. not Africa..."shirts and stuff in the 20th century"
