montelatici
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Don't get hung up on "Arab". It is a cultural and linguistic distinction ....
No, get hung up on culture. Entire cultures don't just magically transform themselves into other cultures, you know. It takes a tremendous amount of exposure and influence. Those types of drastic transformations don't happen without events (invasion, conquest, expulsion, forced conversion, ethnic cleansing, genocide, wars) to make them happen.
And how does that change the ancestry of the Palestinians? So, the people of the Roman province of Palestina who practiced different religions became Christian after 380 AD, forcefully or otherwise. They are still the ancestors of the Muslim and Christian people of Palestine. The ancestors of the Zionist Europeans were, on the other hand, overwhelmingly Europeans.