Thanks McGrath. Your correction made my point (about relatedness) much more effectively than I had. And better addresses the nonsense.

I'm reminded that the birth certificates of Jews born in Palestine before 1947 have the descriptor 'Palestinian Jew' (or words to that effect) rather than "Israeli", and that some of these people (who have Israeli passports) are not very pleased with the similarities between the "Israeli" policies towards non-Jewish residents in the area and South African policies towards non-whites before 1990.

There's quite a lot of factual history that gets 'overlooked', if not actually denied, in various history wars.

Cheers, Rowan