What a shock! O.K. Not so much. After all, Arafat was an Egyptian. In any event, it is always refreshing when an Arab Palestinian admits the truth about the origins of the Arab Palestinians. (O.K. now you all can start throwing stones )

Hamas Senior Official: Palestinians Don’t Come from Palestine
By: Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Hamas Minister of Interior and National Security Fathi Hammad recently said that the Palestinians actually came from Egypt, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.
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He declared that: “Al-Aqsa and the land of Palestine represent the spearhead for Islam and for the Muslims.
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In an attempt to gain Egyptian sympathy, he said that all Palestinians have Arab roots, blood ties in various countries on the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt. Hammad said that half of his family was Egyptian and over thirty large families are named Al-Matzri, from Egypt. Half of all Gazans came from Egypt; the other half came from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He repeated and clarified: “Who are the Palestinians? We have many families named Al-Matzri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptians! They came from Alexandria, Cairo, Dumietta, the North, from Aswan and Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians. We are Arabs. We are Muslims. We are a part of you”.
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Miraj

You are right, some Israelis do not come directly from Israel, but all Jews "come from" Israel since that is the homeland of the Jewish people. There are many non-Jewish Israelis and they do not come from Israel, yet they are still Israelis. For instance no Arabs come from Israel (or what some people incorrectly refer to as "Palestine")

None of this really matters all that much since smart people deal with present realities and the reality is that there are groups of people who consider themselves national groups and whose interests need to be and can be adderessed. Let us work on that.