Episode #7 Earliest Palestinians
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According to you, how long have Palestinians been here?
So, what I know
is that Palestine as a national movement
is something that started in the early 1900s
and that before that it wasn't named
it was the Ottoman Empire
and it wasn't a specific national movement.
There were tribes here,
that lived here for hundreds of years
and that when there was a conversation about
establishing a Jewish state and a Palestinian state
that's when they started to
have a national identity
as Palestinians.
So for me, it's...
Palestine and Palestinian
took some articulated identity
after the British Mandate.
So, it was like if you go
even to some Jewish residents
who were here before the establishment
of the State of Israel
they will hold Palestinians passports
Palestinians documents.
So in the Palestinian mentality
there are documents
this was the State of Palestine.
But the same documents
also have 'aleph' and 'yud'
which stand for 'Eretz Yisrael' [Land of Israel]
but since it was only 'aleph' and 'yud'
for Palestinians it is, you know
they didn't even know what it means.
So after the establishment of the State of Israel
it's like the British people have
promised us a state.
and now they are helping another nation
to have a state,
a very different state,
on our land.
So this is how they see it.
But it's true that nationally
it was created after the mandate.
But some people would call
everyone who was here a Palestinian
since the earliest times.
So they will say that Jesus was a Palestinian.
No. Jesus was Jewish!
Yeah, but the way that
how Palestinians will define it
Palestinian is not about religion
but about the 'Palestinian' nationality.
So this is how they can view it.
It's true, he was a Jew.