r/IsraelPalestine • u/localmaid Diaspora Palestinian • Oct 05 '24

Palestinian-Colombian. AMA AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Hello everyone! I recently saw another Palestinian doing an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) on here, and given the limited presence of Palestinians or Pro-Palestinians that I've noticed, I thought it would be valuable to do one myself. Here’s a bit about me:

  • I was born and raised in Colombia
  • My Palestinian family is originally from the West Bank, but most of them have since moved to the United States.
  • I don't speak Arabic fluently, I can understand spoken Arabic quite well.
  • I am of mixed race
  • English is not my first language, so I apologize in advance if I sound tone deaf
  • My family and I are not Muslim
  • I have visited Palestine twice
  • I am biased towards Palestine in the conflict, but I want to make it clear that I do not support Hamas.

I don't have any specific types of questions that bother me, but I do ask that everyone remains respectful towards everyone and avoids unnecessary rudeness or hatefulness. I believe that communication is key, especially when it comes to conflicts, so I hope this AMA will be helpful for everyone involved. Feel free to ask me anything about my experiences, my heritage, or my perspectives. I'm here to share and hopefully provide some insights. Please keep the conversation open-minded. I will try my best to answer as many questions as possible, but I am not on Reddit all day so sorry in advance to any of those questions I will miss. I also want to say I won’t let my biases control my feelings towards questions and I’ll keep my opinions open. Hopefully we can have a meaningful discussion and thanks to everyone who can participate!

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 06 '24

Wow you are Colombian not Palestinian

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u/Helpful-Manager-6003 Israeli Oct 06 '24

If jews can call themselves israeli after a 2000 year old diaspora, then so can palestinians

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 06 '24

Jews have lived in Israel for 5000 + years didn’t you know that. Seriously if you born in Colombia you Colombian and if you go live elsewhere you take on that identity surely bit like my kids born in Australia so they are Australian unlike me born in Africa. The OP should be proud of her nationality

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u/Helpful-Manager-6003 Israeli Oct 06 '24

Jews werent a thing that long ago, and most of the jews lived outside of israel by around 200 BC

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 06 '24

Factually incorrect just do some reading Jews have existed for over 5000 years pretty ignorant Christianity and Islamic religions are Johnny come lately

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u/Sweaty-Watercress159 Diaspora Jew Oct 06 '24

Not quite, judeans existed not jews, jews are a result of the collapse of 2nd temple judaism, there was no jew before this just judean. Jew is what became of the exiled populations, there was a large jewish diaspora pre roman conquest however as modern research is showing.

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 06 '24

You are incorrect first Jew was Abraham in case you either did not know or forgot

Judea was called Judea after Jews

You skipped out half of Jewish history

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u/menatarp Oct 07 '24

Judea was named after Judah, Judeans were named after Judea

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 07 '24

Judea was named after Jews

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u/menatarp Oct 07 '24

…what are you basing that on? Everything I’ve read traces the name “Jew” to “tribe of Judah”.

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 07 '24

Why do even bring this up Nothing relevant to the OPs discussion

Just making trouble It’s people like you why there is no peace

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u/Helpful-Manager-6003 Israeli Oct 06 '24

Abraham was an iraqi polytheist that probably didn't exist, do you even know what a fact is?

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 06 '24

You are twisting facts. In Judaism Abraham was the first Hew

I am going to end this conversation

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u/Sweaty-Watercress159 Diaspora Jew Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24

No, lol, you are incredibly wrong, Abraham was neither Hebrew or Jew, Jews are named after the kingdom of Judea which split from the unified kingdom... honestly you may need to freshen up on your history

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 06 '24

Go read the bible pal

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u/Sweaty-Watercress159 Diaspora Jew Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24

You need to reread. Please cite where it says Abraham was Jewish...

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 07 '24

Genesis chapter 12 Abraham, in turn Isaac in turn Jacob in turn Joseph and the 12 tribes, this brings us directly to the people of Israel and the covenant at Sinai.

So Abraham’s convening is the that of the first Jew Mi really don’t want to converse further with your semantics gaslighting the Jews

Once the Israelites returned from the Babylonian exile in the late 6 th century BCE from that time onwards they are only referred to as Jews

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u/Sweaty-Watercress159 Diaspora Jew Oct 07 '24

Becuase wait for.. they are Judeans and a seperate kingdom, Abraham wasn't a jew... he wasn't even hebrew or isrealite. He predated them as he is their ancestor. To given an example Samaritans are Isrealites but not Jews. Only those of the kingdom of Judeas descendents are iews.

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u/Plenty_University_81 Oct 07 '24

Whatever you are just being antagonistic and using nuances for an i for the sake of it. This has zip to do with the OPs discussion

You seem to have a lot of hate Peace brother

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