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In reply to the discussion: No, pro Palestinian leftists, Israel is not committing genocide [View all]Beastly Boy
(11,486 posts)And the baseline of Palestinian Arabs in the Mandatory Palestine lost its cultural cohesion way before 1967.
It started right after the Armistice of 1949. The Palestinian Arabs in Israel became Israelis, the West Bank Palestinians became Jordanians and the Gazan Palestinians became Egyptians. Their respective identities became distinct and developed in different directions. All three groups formally became enemies of each other. The pan-Palestinian allegiances remain to this day, but people living in different countries inevitably become different, especially with generational changes.
In this respect, Israel is more of a melting pot than you give it credit for. In the 1950s, a million Jews were expelled from Muslim countries from Iraq to Morocco. They had nowhere to go but Israel.They were all culturally less Israeli than the Israeli Palestinians. The same goes for Jewish exiles from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Iran later on. While Israel is still intended to be ethnically homogeneous, it is not. Israel's incredible cultural diversity is completely lost on the detractors who paint Israel as a homogeneous Zionist entity.
They rely on ignorance to keep them going.