Many Palestinian Ancestors Were Jews

[marshabar1]

Who Were Forced to Convert to Islam

In the shadow of the conflict over the Promised Land more and more Palestinians are disclosing the truth: Entire families are considering conversion to Judaism. They claim that their ancestors were forced to choose between religion (Judaism) and remaining on the Land, and hence, they were compelled to convert to Islam.

On our forays into the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria we have met many Palestinians who have told us about their Jewish ancestry. For their own protection, we cannot publish everything that we were told.

These Palestinians are part of the seed of Israel and could be called “Palestinian Marranos” - like the “secret Jews” of Spain in the 15th century who were forced to convert to Christianity, but covertly remained observant Jews. By returning to the Jewish religion and nation, they foresee a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

“My great great-grandparents immigrated to Israel from Yemen about 300 years ago,” Mohammed Sir told Israel Today. “My grandfather and my father told me that we are actually Jews. As Jews they would have been forced to pay protection money in order to live here under Islamic rule.”

www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22830/language/en-US/Default.aspx



While most Palestinians define themselves as Arabs, their ancestry is
most probably a combination of many tribes that inhabited the region
over many centuries. According to one study:

The Palestinians do not have a common ethnic origin or a common
religion. What joins them together is simply the fact that they and
their ancestors have lived in the land of Palestine from as far back
as any of them can record. In their veins run the blood of the ancient
Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders and Turks ... It must be fully
conceded that the Palestinians are a very mixed group of people ...
each group of Palestinians traces its ancestry over differing lengths
of time.

The 1968 Palestinian National Covenant defines Palestinians as Arabs
who had inhabited Palestine before 1947, Jews who had inhabited
Palestine before the beginning of the modern Zionist immigrations, and
their descendants through the male line.

Under the British mandate period from 1918 to 1948, the term
"Palestinian" usually referred to anyone living in Palestine: Arab,
Jew or other.

WIKIPEDIA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian

According to the Jewish Virtual Library SOME (not all) Palestinian
ancestors were in fact Jews who were forced to convert to Islam or
face death in Yemen (1165 and 1678), Morocco (1275, 1465 and 1790-92) and Baghdad (1333 and 1344).

JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf15.html

These people were offered a "dhimma" ("writ of protection"), which was
extended by Muslim conquerors to Christians and Jews in exchange for
their subordination to the Muslims. It is also theorized that over a
span of hundreds of years many of the descendants of the originally
subjugated second class non-citizens (basically slaves) who were
subjected to deprivation of any legal and human rights, eventually
embraced the majority religion and converted on their own.



Note the Arabs enslaved the Jews whose land they invaded.

[NoMoreLunacy]

So do you think these dudes will be given voting rights by Israel?

[ed1066]

All Israeli citizens have voting rights, just like America...

[marshabar1]

Arab citizens vote in Israel. They even sit on the knesset.

[ed1066]

Uh oh, if the Palestinians are Jews, the liberals are going to have a quandary...

[marshabar1]

Jun 17, 2011 23:48:26 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

Uh oh, if the Palestinians are Jews, the liberals are going to have a quandary...

Oh I don't know . . . what's one more knarly little moral inconsistency.