My mother tongue is Chinese so I am only Chinese, most people in Palestinian state speak a variant of Arab language so they are Arabs. Acquired language skill in school has nothing to do with identity.Should we call you English because you are speaking English? Palestinians are predominantly non-Arab, as are Jordanians and Lebanese. 'Descendant of Jewish' is non-sequitur, moot. If a descendant of a Jew converts to Islam and adopts the Arabic language, does he cease to be a Jewish descendant?
Israeli citizens aren't Palestinian Jewish. They are Jewish of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Iraq, Yemen, Ethiopia, Morocco.. of everywhere except Palestine - they make this clear themselves, referring to themselves as Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, etc. Jews were forbidden permanent residence in the Holy Lands by Islamic rulers, a law inherited from the Byzantines who inherited it from their Roman polity who adopted it c.70 AD.
The name Palestine is derived from a period much older than Romans. The earliest mention of it is as Pulasati by ancient Egyptians c.1150 BC. Whereas Israel and Judah (the latter for Jew) are later inventions.
He put Palestinian in quotations because this is a common Zionist trope invented by Golda Meir in the 1970's which seeks to doctor history by erasing any reference to Palestine. Another related common Zionist invention is: Israel was there first. ..which is totally false because the Pulasit were there first and long before them, the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hyksos, and Kemetians (ancient Egyptians).
"Palestinian Arab" isn't even the point of argument, so what is the point of hair splitting of Arab and Arab speaking anyway? Who in the world besides Israel would object the notion of "Palestinian Arab" or "Palestinian"?
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