>>I wouldn't use Wikipedia as a source of information. It's not reliable. I can tell you that I am an editor.<<

Ummm... isn't it your job, as an editor, to make it a reliable source of information? Or do you just not care? I like to rely on wikpedia as a source of accurate, up-to-date information about the world and d!ckheads like you treating it as their own personal political football ground doesn't make it any easier. Knowledge is such a beautiful thing that it should be shared freely by everyone, not made into some sort of cheap and childish contest over who's political doctrine is best.

Thank god I only rely on wikipedia for accurate technical info - an area in which it is quite good - and not for the *informed* political comment, an area which is clearly edited by cowboys, retards and half-wits.

Cheers,

Tony

This might interest you

Please spare me on you so-called information of the genetic make up of the region. I was heavily involved in research prior to retirement.

Arabs are NOT indigenous to the region. They originate in Arabia, now Saudi Arabia as do the Bedouin. Arabs-Arabia. Jew-Judaea

Everything else is too technical to elaborate on. Jews have a large number of genetic diseases, in fact we have more than any other race, which isn't so great let me tell you.
There are nearly 4,000 genetic diseases known that afflict the world’s population. However, in almost every ethnic, racial, or demographic group, certain genetic diseases occur at higher frequencies among their members than in the general population.
Most diseases are severely incapacitating and some are tragically debilitating, leading to death in infancy or early childhood. Tay-Sachs may be the most recognised.

It's not only genes that are involved, it's the various types of DNA in conjunction with Y-chromosomes. Then there are haplotypes. It's not easy. It's even possible to show Tribes in a couple of instances.

SF,

Eh?

So all "Arabs" originate in Arabia, that statement implies that all the Arabs around the Mediterranean migrated from the Arabian Peninsula in the 7-8th century and replaced the existing population. Many of the populations in the ME and North Africa were "Arabised" by a small ethnic Moslem Arab ruling caste. Your Zionist racist argument is as morally repugnant as other versions on they racial purity theme.

>>Everything else is too technical to elaborate on.<<

Try us. You'd be surprised at what a wealth of technical info we understand.

>>Jews have a large number of genetic diseases, in fact we have more than any other race, which isn't so great let me tell you.<<

Which suggests a high degree of inbreeding. Not necessarily a bad thing if you have a broad enough population but still not something to be encouraged: inbreeding increases the likelihood of unfavourable mutations being passed along. My understanding is that ethnic (rather than religious) Judaism is carried through the female line: by marrying off their women to heathens the Jews stand to vastly increase their population as well as reducing the incidence of debilitating genetic disease. But they don't. What's up with that?

Cheers,

Tony

On the Palestinians' Canaanite ancestry:

http://www.stml.net/text/Populations.pdf

Also, your statistics about the population of Jerusalem do not mean that there were few Arabs in Palestine compared to Jews. It just means that there were more Jews in Jerusalem than non-Jews.

At the time of the beginning of the Zionist movement, the vast majority of the population of Palestine were Palestinian Arabs.

Regarding the Wikipedia entry I posted, I included the footnotes so that people in this forum could check the claims in that particular passage.

And people such as Queen Rania, Yassir Arafat, etc. - they are included because they have Palestinian heritage.

By the way, SF, I do not think you should be having a go at me for providing a link to a supposedly biased resource, when all the links you have provided so far are to Zionist websites.