A blow against propaganda and fiction. As I show in my forthcoming book The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, the idea that there is a distinct Palestinian nationality, and was ever a Palestinian state, is a falsehood designed by the KGB and Yasir Arafat in the 1960s in order to gain leverage against Israel and remove the perception that Israel was a tiny state facing massive and implacable foes — instead, the “Palestinians” were the tiny people facing the massive Israeli war machine. The claim that Israel occupies any “Palestinian territory” is also false; all the territory of the Jewish state, and more, was given for Jewish settlement in the Mandate for Palestine. It was not taken from any other state, and doesn’t belong to anyone else. This propaganda has been remarkably successful, but that doesn’t make it true.
“US State Department removes all mention of Palestinian Authority,” Arutz Sheva, August 25, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):
The US State Department website has deleted the Palestinian Authority from the list of countries and areas on its website.
Until recently, ‘Palestinians’ appeared on the site under the name ‘Palestinian Authority’ and before that the ‘Palestinian Territories’.
Over the past year there has been a significant devaluation of the Palestinian status on the US side, with the State Department ordering to remove any reference that included the word ‘occupied territories’ in reference to the Palestinian Arabs.
Now the very existence of a Palestinian Authority is not present on the official website representing the US State Department.