Palestinesi: differenze tra le versioni

'''Palestinesi''' (da "[[Palestina]]", a sua volta dal [[Lingua greca|greco]] ''Philistia'', "terra dei [[filistei]]", {{Arabo|الفلسطينيون|al-filas{{unicode|ṭ|}}īniyyūn|}}) è un etnonimo per indicare un popolo arabofono, di origine [[arabi|araba]] e [[semiti]]ca, dell'area geografica definita come [[Palestina]].<ref>{{Treccani|palestina#laresistenzapalestinese-1|Palestina|accesso=18 maggio 2014|citazione=Dopo il 1948, pertanto, la storia della P. venne a identificarsi, in larga misura, con quella dello Stato di Israele. Malgrado questa situazione la popolazione arabo-palestinese riuscì a mantenere un sentimento di identità nazionale e fin dagli anni 1950 i Palestinesi diedero vita a una resistenza culturale, politica e militare}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro |lingua = inglese |autore = Alan Dowty |url = http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RrcoTW_vKDUC&pg=PA221#v=onepage&q&f=false |titolo = Israel/Palestine |città = Londra |editore = Polity |anno = 2008 |pagina = 221 |isbn = 978-0-7456-4243-7 |citazione = Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro |lingua = inglese |autore = Bassam Abu-Libdeh |autore2 = Peter D. Turnpenny |autore3 = Ahmed Teebi |capitolo = Genetic Disease in Palestine and Palestinians |curatore = Dhavendra Kuma |titolo = Genomics and Health in the Developing World |città = |editore = Oxford University Press |anno = 2012 |pagine = 700-711 |isbn = 0-19-537475-4 |citazione = Palestinians are an indigenous people who either live in, or originate from, historical Palestine… Although the Muslims guaranteed security and allowed religious freedom to all inhabitants of the region, the majority converted to Islam and adopted Arab culture}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro |lingua = inglese |autore = Moshe Gil |titolo = A History of Palestine, 634-1099 |città = |editore = Cambridge University Press |annooriginale = 1983 |anno = 1997 |pagine = 222-3 |isbn = 0-521-59984-9 |citazione = [[David Ben-Gurion]] and [[Yitzhak Ben-Zvi]] claimed that the population at the time of the Arab conquest was mainly Christian, of Jewish origins, which underwent conversion to avoid a tax burden, basing their argument on 'the fact that at the time of the Arab conquest, the population of Palestine was mainly Christian, and that during the Crusaders’ conquest some four hundred years later, it was mainly Muslim. As neither the Byzantines nor the Muslims carried out any large-scale population resettlement projects, the Christians were the offspring of the Jewish and Samaritan farmers who converted to Christianity in the Byzantine period; while the Muslim fellaheen in Palestine in modern times are descendants of those Christians who were the descendants of Jews, and had turned to Islam before the Crusaders’ conquest}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro |lingua = inglese |autore = Nabih Amin Faris |url_capitolo = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/439645/Palestine/45060/From-the-Arab-conquest-to-1900 |capitolo = (Palestine) From the Arab Conquest to 1900 |titolo = [[Enciclopedia Britannica|Encyclopædia Britannica]] |data = 9 settembre 2013 |citazione = The process of Arabization and Islamization was gaining momentum there. It was one of the mainstays of Umayyad power and was important in their struggle against both Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula… Conversions arising from convenience as well as conviction then increased. These conversions to Islam, together with a steady tribal inflow from the desert, changed the religious character of Palestine’s inhabitants. The predominantly Christian population gradually became predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking. At the same time, during the early years of Muslim control of the city, a small permanent Jewish population returned to [[Gerusalemme|Jerusalem]] after a 500-year absence |accesso = 18 maggio 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro |lingua = inglese |autore = Peter Marshall Fraser |url_capitolo = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/439645/Palestine/45075/The-term-Palestinian |capitolo = The Term "Palestinian" |titolo = [[Enciclopedia Britannica|Encyclopædia Britannica]] |data = 9 settembre 2013 |citazione = The Arabs of Palestine began widely using the term Palestinian starting in the pre–World War I period to indicate the nationalist concept of a Palestinian people. But after 1948—and even more so after 1967—for Palestinians themselves the term came to signify not only a place of origin but also, more importantly, a sense of a shared past and future in the form of a Palestinian state |accesso = 18 maggio 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro |lingua = inglese |autore = Bernard Lewi |titolo = Semites and Anti-Semites, An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice |città = New York |editore = W. W. Norton & Company |anno = 1999 |pagina = 169 |isbn = 0-393-31839-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro |lingua = inglese |autore = Michael Prior |titolo = Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry |città = |editore = Psychology Press |anno = 1999 |pagina = 201 |isbn = 0-415-20462-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro |lingua = inglese |autore = James Parkes |titolo = Whose Land? A History of the Peoples of Palestine |città = Londra |editore = Penguin Books |annooriginale = 1949 |anno = 1970 |pagine = 209-210 |isbn = 0-14-021089-X}}</ref> Una singolare teoria pone che finoFino al 1920 solo gli [[Ebrei]] dell'area erano chiamati "palestinesi".<ref>{{en}} [http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/119383 Before 1920, only Jews were called, "Palestinians!"]</ref>