Are Palestinians Semites?
Most mainstream sources in the provided set treat Palestinians as part of the Semitic-speaking and Levantine peoples: historical summaries identify ancient Canaanites as “Semitic” inhabitants of Pales...
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Arabic-speaking ethnic and national groups, originally from the Arabian Peninsula
Most mainstream sources in the provided set treat Palestinians as part of the Semitic-speaking and Levantine peoples: historical summaries identify ancient Canaanites as “Semitic” inhabitants of Pales...
The question "are Israeli people indigenous to Israel?" lacks a simple yes/no answer: modern Israelis include groups with varied historical ties to the land, and genetic, historical, and political evi...
Herodotus names and describes several coastal places now identified as Gaza, Ashkelon and Tyre (often under Greek forms like Cadytis or Jenysus), situating them in a coastal district he calls “Palesti...
Transjordan was included within the geographic scope of the British Mandate for Palestine at San Remo in 1920 but was administratively treated as a separate entity by Britain from about late 1920–1921...