“In 1830, Muhammad Ali of Egypt conquered Jaffa, Nablus, and Beisan and settled Egyptian and Sudanese Muslim Arab soldiers there. Around the same time, the French conquest of Algeria led to an exodus of North African Muslims who refused to live under infidel rule. They came in large numbers to Palestine….In 1930, Christie published a study entitled ‘Arabs and Jews in Palestine.’ He noted ‘the settlement of sections of Yemenite and Kaisite Arabs in Nazareth and Cana of Galilee’…adding that the Shi’ite Muslims of that region had a ‘non-Galilean origin.’ Christie concluded: ‘There remains the “Arab” peasantry, or villagers. Every evidence points to their being Arabs only in the matter of language. They have much less Arabic blood than any of the sections of the people already named…'” — From The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
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