Are the Palestinians of Jewish Decent?

Torah Reading Genesis 28:

In the year 135AD the Roman Emperor, Hadrian changed the name of Jerusalem including Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon to Palestina. Therefore the Jews, Arabs, Europeans and Asians who lived there were known as Palestinians. This area of the world was known as Greco Palestine.

I’ve been asked, So Palestinians have Jewish blood lineage? The answer is Yes! The Arabs come from dysfunctional family of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Sarah and Esau, the first born son of Isaac and Rebekah.

In Genesis 28, Isaac blessed Jacob and ask him not to find a wife from Canaan in which Ishmael’s family settled but from Laban’s family who was Abraham’s uncle. When Esau heard this he went to Canaan to find a wife.
“ And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.” Genesis 28:8-9

Application: It is easier to be in covenant with a stranger than a brother who is offended. Now later Esau and Jacob reconcile, Genesis 33, but the seeds of discord had been sown.

This why our Master, King Jesus said in Luke 17:1-4, “Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.”
Shalom Shalom!

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