That is a quaint historical "misconception."

The people called the Palestinian People are not a homogeneous people.

Some are indigenous people like the Samaritans, with whom I personally, with a group, met and listened as well as spoke with the High Priest of the Samaritans in 1982 near Mount Gerizarim (הַר גְּרִיזִּים or جبل جرزيم). The Samaritans are a small minority of Palestinian People, neither Arab nor Jew, that live in the Nablus area. see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gerizim

There are also Christian populations within the Palestinian People many dating back to the times following Christ.

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Most Palestinian Christians nowadays see themselves as culturally and linguistically Arab Christians with ancestors dating back to the first followers of Christ. They claim descent from a mixture of Jews and Gentiles who converted to Christianity in the first few centuries AD,[16] Romans, Ghassanids, Byzantines, and Crusaders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palest...arly_histor y

Certain irony in that ...

When the Orient Express was built c.1880 there was a mass migration of Arab labors to Palestine (the north coastal area of Israel now) and Lebanon for the purpose of logging the forests for railroad ties. Many of the non-indigenous Palestinian people descend from that immigration.

I have been in the Jezreel valley and Megiddo it is surrounded by a mountainous area with mainly shrub.

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"The Jezreel Valley is a large fertile plain and inland valley south of the Lower Galilee region in Israel and West Bank in the Palestinian territories. Wikipedia"

The Jezreel valley, near Megiddo, is prophesied to be the site of the place of Armageddon. The final war "the armies Gog and Magog" Ezekiel 25-48, Book of Revelation, and even the Qur'an: In Surat Al-Kahf ("The Cave", 18:83–98) and Surat Al-Anbiya ("The Prophets", 21:96–100). Maybe you can begin to understand the basis of the religious claims each people; Arab, Christian and Jew attach to these lands.

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In 1852 the American writer Bayard Taylor traveled across the Jezreel Valley, which he described in his 1854 book 'The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain' as: "one of the richest districts in the world."[10] Laurence Oliphant, who visited the 'Akko Sanjak' valley area in 1887, then a subprovince of the 'Beirut Wilayah',[11] wrote that the Valley of Esdraelon (Jezreel) was "a huge green lake of waving wheat, with its village-crowned mounds rising from it like islands; and it presents one of the most striking pictures of luxuriant fertility which it is possible to conceive."[12]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley

With all due respect, Mr. Twain was maybe telling the story he saw but it's his truth ...

85%+ of the people inhabiting the area of Israel and Palestine are immigrants of recent history, each with its own claims to the lands which BTW, contain most of arable land and fresh water in the region. The Jordan River and the Litani River (Lebanon) are the only large sources of water in the area.

The people of Gaza are mainly displaced Muslim Arabs from the UN partition and creation of the State of Israel and the resulting war in 1948. There are probably a few descendants of, or those who claim to be descended from, the Philistines of the Bible

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"According to the Bible, they ruled the five city-states (the "Philistine Pentapolis") of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, from Wadi Gaza in the south to the Yarqon River in the north, but with no fixed border to the east ..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines.

But don't let the historical facts get in the way of emotions and drama... Carry On ...

The wikipedia quotes were not the basis of what I said, merely references -- I spent 3 years in Israel and speak from the expedience of what both Israelis, some Palestinians (of all faiths), Druze, and Samaritans have told me personally. I sat and listened to a Mullah speak and make his case of his peoples' claims to their lands and some were legitimate. I have listened to Rabbis make their claims, mostly I might add just like the Mullah -- most based in old even ancient theology.

The Important Part:
The best experience I had on my stay in Israel in retrospect was the day we had a serious injury on the dairy farm I was working on.

We, Myself, the Russian Jew farmer and one of the Arab Butchers from Gaza who was buying the cows for slaughter, were loading two burnt-out dairy cows up a trailer's ramp. We were lifting the ramp to close the trailer and all of a sudden one cow decided to step backwards. We could not hold the ramp up. The farmer was not able to jump back fast enough like the butcher an I were able to. The ramp came down smashing the farmers foot.

Somehow, with the help of a cattle prod the Arab butcher and I got the trailer ramp back up and off Ephraim's foot TOGETHER. I ran to the house to get help and call an ambulance. The Arab butcher from Gaza knew bones, while I was gone he reset the Jewish farmer's broken foot bones (the metacarpals top 5 in the foot).

The Doctor at the hospital told the farmer's wife that when Ephraim got there that his foot was saved by the work of that Gazan Butcher resetting the Jewish farmer Ephraim's foot bones. I will never forget that day -- it taught me that people who work together can climb mountains and not to judge a man by his religion or race but by his deeds. That day together we put those religious people and their inner hate to shame.

King Hussein is a Hashimite:

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Hashemite, also Hashimite, is the Latinate version of the Arabic: هاشمي‎, transliteration: Hā?imī, and traditionally refers to those belonging to the Banu Hashim, or "clan of Hashim", a clan within the larger Quraish tribe. It also refers to an Arab dynasty whose original strength stemmed from the network of tribal alliances and blood loyalties in the Hejaz region of Arabia, along the Red Sea.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashemite During the war, Lawrence fought with Arab irregular troops under the command of Emir Faisal, a son of Sherif Hussein of Mecca, in extended guerrilla operations against the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. Lawrence obtained assistance from the Royal Navy to turn back an Ottoman attack on Yenbu in December 1916.[20] Lawrence's major contribution to the revolt was convincing the Arab leaders (Faisal and Abdullah) to co-ordinate their actions in support of British strategy. He persuaded the Arabs not to make a frontal assault on the Ottoman stronghold in Medina but allowed the Turkish army to tie up troops in the city garrison. The Arabs were then free to direct most of their attention to the Turks' weak point, the Hejaz railway that supplied the garrison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._...ce#Arab_revolt

The Hashemite was separated from the Saud tribe by the British victors of the First Word War and given the territory of Trans-Jordan, now known as Jordan, to rule as a sovereign domain in return for his tribe's support of Lawrence of Arabia. The Royal Hashemite Hussein family is overlord foreigner to a mixed Arab population, many of whom are expatriate Palestinians. They are "pander bears" to the greatest extent to save their British imposed kingdom.

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Hussein bin Ali was born in 1853 in Istanbul as the eldest son of Sharif Ali ibn Muhammad and his wife, Salha Bani-Shahar. He was the last of the Hashemite rulers over the Hejaz to be appointed by the Ottoman Sultan.[4] As a Hashemite,[5] he was highly respected in the Islamic world. It was his noble lineage which granted him the status he maintained in the Hijaz. As a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, even the British, during his period as Emir, recognized this special status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussei...cca#Early_life

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In the aftermath of the war, the Arabs found themselves freed from centuries of Ottoman Sultanate rule, but under the mandate colonial rule of France and the United Kingdom. As these mandates ended, the sons of Hussein were made the kings of Transjordan (later Jordan), Syria and Iraq. However, the monarchy in Syria was short-lived, and consequently Hussein's son (Faisal) instead presided over the newly-established Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein..._World_W ar_I

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Al-Hejaz, also, Hijaz (Arabic: الحجاز‎ al-Ḥiǧāz, literally "the barrier") is a region in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia. It is bordered on the west by the Red Sea, on the north by Jordan, on the east by Nejd and on the south by Asir. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejaz

You need to have a little understanding before you start quoting and understand the political motivations ... What you quote King Hussein as saying seems to me: That his fellow Arab leaders would not assist in the Palestinian exile population problem destabilising his kingdom gifted as the British reward for his father's loyalty in the First Word War. Truth hurts :P

"taal" or "tell (the phonetic pronunciation)" means foothill in Hebrew and "har" means Mount" -- "harim" would be Mts. plural. Tal Megiddo is an archaeological site now ... Been there ...