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A:Throughout much of ancient history, the Levant region was an ethnic melting pot. No one ethnic group could truly trace its origins back exclusively to one tribe or group of tribes.

The modern Palestinians could regard their ancestry as a combination of Canaanites, Philistines, Nabataeans (who settled around the Sinai region in late biblical times), as well as Greek and Roman settlers. They would almost certainly include among their ancestors some Idumeans who avoided forced conversion to Judaism, and even some Jews who converted from Judaism to Christianity or Islam. Finally, the Arab and then Turkish conquests would have added to the ethnic mix, just as they did to all the other ethnic groups in the Middle East.

However, Palestinians do not assert themselves to be one or part of the Tribes of Israel nor is a view of that nature commonly accepted by non-Palestinians.

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