Jews Do Not ‘Occupy’ Their Own Homeland

[aranthus]

69. We've had this discussion before.

I want to commend shira for already pointing out the bad faith of your position, so I don't have to cover that. However, to add to it, I will point out that what shira and I are arguing is not that Jews have the stronger claim so, therefore, Palestinians have no rights at all. And you know that. What we are pointing out is that the Palestinian position (and yours) is built on denying that the Jews have any rights at all. That's why Palestinians have made false claims that they are the descendants of the Canaanites. There may be some slight genetic link in some Palestinians, but it's cultural identity that counts, and there is precious little of Canaanite culture in Palestinian culture. But their point is not to establish that they have a right to a state because they are descendants of the Canaanites. It is to deny that the Jews don't have any rights because of the false claim that the Palestinians are descended from the Canaanites, and the even more false claim that the Jews are not descended from the Canaanites. And you just eat it up.

The issue is not ethnicity. It is national identity. The Jews and Palestinians are two separate nations. Do you accept that? Do you understand why that is of crucial significance? Because I've explained it to you before, and I really don't see the need to go over the same territory again with a denier.