One is that Palestinians are a semitic peoples, while the settlers are nearly all euro-amerikkkan origin. So even by Israel's old testament blood quantum calculus, they have much less claim to the land than the indigenous peoples do.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I actually meant the opposite, that DNA tests will show Europe as region of ancestry, but I also see how your idea can cause problems too.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

I just have memories of the early days of genetic sequencing research breakthroughs and the Israeli government started to order it's scientists to sequence the Israeli and Palestinian DNA to "prove" their difference... only to very quickly learn they were almost identical, stop the program, and try and stop people from talking about it.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 16 points 1 month ago

Turns out...You can't claim to be superior if you aren't superior. Who would have thought.

[–] zapzap@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wouldn't being genetically identical to Palestinians support the Israeli's case for being there?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

Your cousin coming to your home to visit or asking you to live there is very different from him coming to murder you and steal your house and tell the world how he is right to life there and your family trying not to have their house stolen is literal terrorism

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

It's not about their case for being there. It's about their desire to be distinct from them. Harder to "other" and genocide your own people.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's what I assumed also. They basically look the same in general