There are numerous sects, many of which have nothing to do with the conflict. Christians face persecution across the middle east and even if we refer only to Israel, its not a Christian nation.

Okay then.

and others historically. Most are simply parables after all. If one has ever taken a philosophy course or studied comparative religion, there is very little unique in these tenets and are consistent across many religions and beliefs including those of secular humanists.

This reminds me of the movie with Orson Welles. A former Nazi in hiding revealed himself by saying Marx wasn't a German, he was a Jew.

Palestine is home to the Jews, the Samaritans, the Philistines, the Canaanites...



How did this whole mess with Jews and Palestinians start?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora#Roman_destruction_of_Judea
The Jews, the remains of the kingdom of Israel, launched failed rebellions against the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd century CE. The retaliation by the Roman Empire against jewish populations caused the jewish people to leave their homeland and to spread out over the Middle-East and Europe.

So, with the Jews out, non-Jews moved in and made the area their home.

That's why both the muslims Palestinians and the Jews consider Palestine (the geographic area of the former kingdom of Israel) THEIR own homeland.

is just as Palestinian as Haniyeh and Abbas.

The problem isn't the use of the word to indicate geographic origin, the problem is that it's bifurcated--a problem attaching to a lot of words these days.

"Palestinian" is a geographical term; on the other hand, it's also an ethnic term. The two overlap but aren't coterminous.

The rhetoric rests on trying to get people to believe in something that is actually a fallacy.

It's like when there was some attacker in France: He was "French." Of course, he was born in Algeria, spoke primarily Arabic, was Muslim, lived among Muslims, identified mostly as Algerian-Arab, but his citizenship, his passport, said "French." While true, the reason for phrasing it that way was entirely to make people think, "Ah, he's French and not Arab." In other words, to manipulate and deceive.

"French" is also an ethnonym, and that particular attacker may have been French but he was not French.

Russian has a handy way of distinguishing this (clearly so until Putin came along and pissed in the well of lexical unambiguity): rossiiskii and russkii. If you're ethnically Russian, you're russkii. If you're Tatar or Yukaghir and born in Russia, you're a rossiiskii citizen. (The well-pissing was Putin's saying that if you have Russian culture then you're Russian, and the primary attribute of Russian culture is speaking Russian. So the ethnonym's now, in some sense, little different in kind than francophone or anglophone, but I don't think "russophone" sounds euphonious.)

The Romans came up with the name Palestine a couple hundred years later.

The name Palestine was derived from the name Philistine, no?

The Roman's came up with the name just to piss people off.

at that time. It was called Judea. So he was a Jew from Judea.

The Romans have no record of him living, being executed during the time he was supposed to have lived it is highly likely that he did not exist as presented. The Romans kept very strict records, it is why we know so much about them and their empire.
Additionally Pontus Pilate (Who we know was an actual person from Roman records) would have had no problem in putting a 'rabble rouser' like Jesus to death by crucifixtion. He would not have asked the Jewish crowd who should live or die.
Pontus was extremely blood thirsty. So much so that he was recalled from being governor of Judea because the Roman emperor thought that his blood thirst would cause the Jews to rise up in rebellion.

he did go off and start Christianity. I'll also add that roughly 45% of the Palestinians who reside in the West Bank are Christians.

And only 1 to 2 percent of "west bank" Palestinians are xtians.


They are not treated very well since they're dhimmis:

One must bear in mind that the United States has always been a country of immigrants and their descendants. The United States has all kinds of immigrants and descendants of immigrants who fled their old home countries due to oppression and abusive treatment.