@InfraBlue,
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The Palestinians lived throughout Palestine, your simplistic distiction between them and "Israelites" notwithstanding. The Palestinians are the decendants of the "Israelites" and the other ancient peoples of Palestine. The handful of "Jews" that were there when the Zionists began to arrogate Palestine were also decendants of the "Israelites" and the other peoples of Palestine.
Bingo! The first Christians were Jews and the bible states Abraham's first son was Ishmael who was blessed to become a leader of a great nation, that of Islam.
I'm an unbelievable in gods but a lot of knowledge may be found in the Bible for the Old Testament was written by many ancients.....the New Testament, well, many people who wrote about Jesus did not live during the life of this Christian prophet. As you so eloquently put it, InfraBlue, all these people descended from the same source in Caanan, i.e., "the ancient peoples of Palestine" which consisted of many tribes, yet they were all Palestinians from the land of Palestine. For some to say there is no such people as Palestinians, then they must also include the descendants of the Hebrews. It is said Palestinians have more of the ancient Jewish DNA in them than the European Jews.