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First of all sorry if this post is too long or a bit difficult to understand but please if you can read it .
So I don't know if anybody has noticed this and had the same questions and thoughts about how the Arab identity is being used against the Palestinian people .
I began to notice this as I read and learned more about the conflict from the pro-Israeli and pro-Zionist perspectives, where I started to see a recurrent narratives that emphasize on the Palestinians Arab Identity and used against them in a way, this is might be deliberate or due to ignorance or a mix of both by people from outside of the Arab world who lacks the ability to see the difference between arbas and see 300 million people as basically the same, culturally, Linguistically,ethnically etc.. It's very, very similar to Europeans seeing everyone in Africa as the same and not realizing how much difference there is between them.
And what I mean by used against them is that pro-Zionists use this to say that the whole idea of a Palestine or the birth of the Palestinian identity only existed and was "invented" just as a tool to hate Jews , that the whole Palestinian culture was invented by Yasser Arafat, as some claims, just to be against Israel, and it didn't exist before and it's not independent of the other Arab cultures.
And this, according to them, gives them the legitimacy to expel the Palestinians and deny them the right to an independent state, you can really see this when Israel refers to Palestinian citizens of Israel as Arab Israelis and goes to great lengths to never mention the word Palestine or Palestinian in any way.
This is also very evident when talking about the Palestinian refugees, especially in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and to a lesser extent Egypt, as they determine that the Palestinian refugees are not refugees because they are just other Lebanese, Syrians and Jordanians, so they have no right to be refugees because they are already in their home nation/nations.
As an argument used by many Zionists "There are 22 arab states why they're not allowing the only Jewish state to exist on this very tiny land while all those Arabs "Palestinians" can go live in those many arab countries" ,
Another way the arab identity is used against the Palestiniens , but this time by more moderate Zionists is that they try to push a solution for the conflict by letting Egypt and Jordan taking gaza and parts of the west bank accordingly, as a more acceptable solution to them than having an independent Palestinian Country.
I am an arab and I Know that arabs shares many different things and have multiple similarities but in the same time we are made of many different distinct groups each with their own identity and the Palestiniens definitely have and developed their own identity.
even If some of the Arab countries current borders are due to colonial past that still doesn't make the " there's no Palestinians and they're just Arabs" a true statement , cause there's no such thing as "Just an Arab " it doesn't hold any true meaning .
and when you think about it the use of such narrative and mentality will also make many countries have no right to exist, starting by all of latin America minus Brazil cause they are just Spanish speaking Latinos so Colombians, Ecuadorians, Peruvians... and all those south American nations are lies, and fake
also if we just hope to the north Canada and Canadians shouldn't exist.
even in Europe a country like Belgium also should be fake cause they're just some french and dutch people, plus most of Switzerland shouldn't exist ...
I Know this argument is stupid especially when people in the arab world hears it, but it's actually used as a fact against the Palestiniens.
what do you think about it ?
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