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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Jan van den Berghe

Ik ben nog steeds benieuwd naar die Palestijnen die, naar geertvdb toch beweerde, Joodse familienamen dragen.

ge weet toch dat ik altijd gelijk heb.
Close to nine out of 10 Palestinians in the Land of Israel - Israel proper, Judea, Samaria and Gaza - have Jewish roots. In fact, he says, the percentage in Gaza is somewhat higher than 90 percent. Misinai is far from the first researcher to have stumbled upon this historical find. The first president of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and the first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, wrote several books and articles on the subject. In fact, Ben-Gurion believed so strongly in the idea that in 1956 he set up a task force headed by Moshe Dayan and Haim Levkovthat was supposed to develop ways to "Judaize" the Beduin, teaching them something about modern Jewish life and tradition to integrate them with the Israeli people, ethnically if not religiously.

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi book: The Peoples of Our Land in 1932 stated that west of the Jordan River, 277 villages and sites- almost two-thirds of all sites- had names that were similar to or the same as Jewish villages on the same sites during Second Temple times.

many Palestinians have Hebrew-derived family names as well, reflecting their origins, Already in the 1860s, "Colonel Condor of the Institute for Israel Research found biblical names among Palestinian fellahin [peasants]. Many of these names have no root in the Arabic lexicon. Large, distinguished families from various parts of the country carry Hebrew names or Jewish family names." Among the surnames of some of the larger clans are the Abu Khatsiras, who control much of the fishing in Gaza; Elbaz, a family of Jews who immigrated from Morocco; Abulafia, the family with the famous Jaffa bakery which is descended from the 13th-century Spanish kabbalist Rabbi Abraham Abulafia; the Almogs of Jenin; the Dawouda (Davids) of Hebron; and even, believe it or not, 4,000 forced converts to Islam named Cohen living in Jordan.

Ik weet dat het een onmogelijke intellectuele inspanning is, maar af en toe moet ge het toch doen: van mening veranderen. Gij hebt ongelijk en ik heb gelijk. Laat ons zeggen dat het god's wil is.