re: #223 SanFranciscoZionist

Uh, they’re mostly Arabs, all Arabic-speaking now, and…yes. But they now functionally exist as a national group.

You are not entirely accurate. Where there was no such thing as a “Palestinian” prior to Israeli statehood, the creation of a nominal “Arab State” at the end of te British Mandate created a de facto nationality for anyone living in those areas. Arguably, the rejection of that state by the Arab nations, and the subsequent invasion of Israel, abrogated its existence and claims, but it nonetheless existed, on paper, at the time Israel was established.