Not so fast. First of all, who claims that Palestinans are a separate ethnic group? Only DNA testing would tell. Who says they are all Arabic? Who equates The Holy Land with only Israel? Not me, not my Irish nun teachers back in the 1950s. We were told to call both Palestine and Israel the Holy Land as it was under dispute. We are not to say either Palestine or Israel, but only the Holy Land. If I now say Israel I say Palestine. Otherwise I revert to calling it all the Holy Land and let God sort it out. mg