American historian Bernard Lewis writes: "Clearly, in Palestine as elsewhere in the Middle East, the modern inhabitants include among their ancestors those who lived in the country in antiquity.
」 美國歷史學者伯納德·劉易斯寫到： 「明顯地，不論是在巴勒斯坦，或是中東的其他地方，現在的居民包含那些世世代代都居住在此的居民。