Talk:List of indigenous peoples/Comments

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I hardly think that "Jews" qualify as an indigenous group of SW Asia. The overwhelming majority of Jews in 'Eretz Israel' (itself a tendentious title)immigrated there (or are descended from those who did so)in the 1930s to 1980s.

By the same token - why would Palestinians NOT be listed as indigenous to SW Asia. Clearly, they are descended of those who have lived there for centuries - and as the region has been inhabited since the Neolithic era, and Palestinians have a certain ancestry in these peoples - they are certainly indigenous to the region.

Eretz Israel has racist implications - it means 'the land of Israel' and includes (if not precisely defined) land well beyond the borders of the present state. The term is used by those who would have an Israeli state on lands not regarded by any world body as integral to the state of Israel as defined before the '67 war. That is to say, by varying definitions, an Israel including Egypt's Sinai, parts of Jordan, southern Lebanon - and as some would have it, up to the Euphrates River. It is anything but a neutral term and has no place in this listing.