Would you please stop posting flamebait and perpetuating flamewars? You've been doing this a ton lately and your account is crossing over the line (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). We've repeatedly asked you to fix this and your latest run has been one of the worst. That's not good.
One can similarly become Palestinian by immigrating to Palestine (and "fitting in", which involves speaking Arabic etc). Arafat was born in Egypt, for example.
Does this refute the notion that Palestinians are from Palestine? I would say no. Similarly Jews are from Judea, despite the existence of a small number of converts with "impure" lineage.
Would you please stop posting flamebait and perpetuating flamewars? You've been doing this a ton lately and your account is crossing over the line (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). We've repeatedly asked you to fix this and your latest run has been one of the worst. That's not good.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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In your opinion, if an American converts to Judaism, at what point does America cease to become their homeland?
One can similarly become Palestinian by immigrating to Palestine (and "fitting in", which involves speaking Arabic etc). Arafat was born in Egypt, for example.
Does this refute the notion that Palestinians are from Palestine? I would say no. Similarly Jews are from Judea, despite the existence of a small number of converts with "impure" lineage.
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