Discuss: Jesus as Palestinian

I have been wrangling with complex thoughts about the reality of Palestinians as opposed to deficient ideas about the middle-East in the United States. In the midst of all that, I wanted to share a succinct thought I had Monday. I am just shooting this one from the hip:

It makes more sense to think of Jesus as being Palestinian rather than Jewish. I am not talking about "right & wrong" but about "accuracy". He was born into a Judaic tradition, of course. However, the current Jewish tradition is enriched by roughly two-thousand years of history and culture apart from this land. Modern Jewish people, contrary to popular misconception, are partly/mostly/entirely descended from converts in various parts of the world or long-isolated members of an uncertain diaspora. They have pieces of other cultures in their traditions and habit -- which is fine.

Just the same, Jesus lived here in historic Palestine. He probably dressed in robes and sandals like the old-guys I see walking through the sook, not in a black suit and broad-brimmed hat. There are passages that talk about him reclining when he eats, breaking his bread and dipping it in things, and feeding large crowds; freshly raised from the dead, he asked the disciples for food. Take it from me: that's a Palestinian attitude about food. Skipping other, mundane similarities, I will get right to the point: Jesus was living under occupation. He was not welcome among the ruling elite in Jerusalem. He was way too active on the Sabbath. He was tired of seeing his people starving and manipulated. He was confused with a violent extremist, even ranked below one during his final days ("send us Barabbas!").

They said he was lying about who He was and doubted his importance. He who had so much to offer was sacrificed for the sake of political interests -- the interests of those in power and their foreign collaborators. His accusers engineered all types of allegations, whatever they could cook-up to get their own way. They knew just how to work the system. In the end, though, Jesus was willing to go into death rather than flee. Unlike them, He knew who He was.

That sounds like a Palestinian narrative to me.