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Credit: Professor Halim Rane on Facebook 22 December 2025
I’ve noticed many Australians have very low levels of literacy regarding the history of Palestine and its inhabitants. There is a widespread misconception that the land historically belonged to the Jewish people and that Palestinians have only inhabited the land since the Muslims defeated the Byzantine in the 7th century.
Here are the facts:

  1. Palestine has never “always” belonged to one people. For over 3,000 years the land has been ruled by multiple empires and polities—Canaanite city-states, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Muslim, and British. Jewish political rule existed only briefly and intermittently, like that of many other groups, and never continuously. In fact, Muslims have ruled Palestine longer than any other empire or political entity—1280 years (638-1917 CE, excluding Crusader rule: Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman)
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[–] VoxOfGod@beige.party 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@DropBear @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com ⏫ the land of Palestine is literally the crossroads of the world.

Together with Syria and Lebanon, it serves as the border between three continents

The idea that the native long-standing residents there would be of any one ethnicity as zionists would have us believe does not stand even the slightest bit of critical thought

[–] DropBear@theblower.au 1 points 3 months ago

@VoxOfGod Modern humans have inhabited the region for an estimated 120,000 years. Before that, there were other hominids. The oldest remains are dated at 1.5 million years.

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There have been many invasions in that region. The first on record is recounted in Bereshit/Genesis. The invaders fabricated a mythology so they could say, in effect, "We thieve and murder because God told us". Handily, that account lists the peoples whose lands they claimed. They certainly weren't the first people of those lands. In the 8th century BCE, Assyrians kicked them out - another invasion. In the interim, there were more invasions, but the one that's causing problems today began in the 19th century. In essence, people who claim to be descended from those ancient thieves now assert rights to their ill-gotten gains. Sort of: "They stole it, fair and square, so its ours now".