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> Similarly, popular opinion in Israel likes to call Palestinians "Arabs" because they adopted the language of their conquerors. That's not a practice imposed
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Similarly, popular opinion in Israel likes to call Palestinians "Arabs" because they adopted the language of their conquerors.
That's not a practice imposed by the Israelis. The (genuine) Arabs, as you would expect, favored themselves. So, everywhere in their empire, social climbers claimed to be Arabs.
When you read about the history of the region, the luminaries who appear tend to be Persians, but this is obscured.
- senderista 2y agoJust as Persians, Syrians, Egyptians, etc. were "Arabized", in turn Turks and Mongols were "Persified".
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> in turn Turks and Mongols were "Persified". How?
- senderista 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turco-Persian_tradition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turco-Persian_tradition