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Who invented the “Palestinians”?

Oct 12, 2019 6:00 pm By Robert Spencer

It’s one of the oddest phenomena of our extraordinarily odd age: the “Palestinian people” are clamoring for freedom and an end to what they claim is an unlawful Israeli occupation of their historic land. Yet search through the history of nations and peoples, and you won’t find any “Palestinian people” at all. Not one mention of such a nation, or such a nationality, until quite recent times.

So who invented the “Palestinians,” and why? And how have these people managed to convince the world that such a people not only exists, but always has existed, and deserves billions of dollars in aid and the avid support of global organizations, as well as the indefatigable sympathy of the international media, no matter what atrocities this newly-minted people commit?

Find out in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, a comprehensive guidebook that makes sense of a problem that has vexed the world for seven decades. Preorder it here.

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  1. SFWhite says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 6:41 pm

    The 1st Palestinians were the Jews, so named by the Roman Empire, who renamed Israel as Palestine, in order to disenfranchise the Jews of the ability to claim the lands God had given them as their own by having it named after them. Contrary to modern hype, the population of that area had remained majority Jewish down through the centuries, even though under Muslim rule. When Israel 1st became a state in 1948, the newspaper of the newly-formed nation, The Palestine Post, announced it.

    The Arabs/Muslims living in the area refused to live in the newly recognized Jewish homeland, even though the Jews were happy to have them stay. At the urging of the surrounding Arab/Muslim countries, Muslims moved from Israel “temporarily”, just until all the surrounding Muslim countries attacked and defeated the Jewish “usurpers”, “returning” the “stolen” land to the Muslims who had self-exiled. Unfortunately, God had other ideas. The neophyte nation of Israel defeated them all, even gaining more land than was originally granted them by the world community that had established their new state.

    Still, after Israel’s victory, Israel offered the Muslims who had left reintegration into Israel, but they refused. Further, the surrounding Muslim countries made no offers of taking in the self-exiled former Israeli-Muslims. So, the new bogus non-ethnicity of “Palestinians” was born from hate, hardheadedness, greed, betrayal and lies that live on today.

    • Rob says

      Oct 12, 2019 at 8:44 pm

      Yeah. The name Judea is a bit of a giveaway as well.
      Barry Shaw in his book ‘1917’ makes the point that Palestinians self-identify as being from all over the ME, their family names. ‘al-Yamini’ (Yemen), ‘al-Masri’ (Egypt) etc etc.
      Industrialisation along the Jordan attracted these Arab newcomers, courtesy of the hydro development on the Jordan.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 12:26 am

      WHO CREATED THE ‘PALESTINIANS’ … here is the answer …

      https://freedomoutpost.com/how-the-palestinians-were-invented/

      In order to destroy the impression of the tiny Jewish state’s facing enormous Muslim Arab foes and prevailing, the Soviet KGB (the Soviet Committee for State Security) developed the fiction of an even smaller people, the “Palestinians,” menaced by a well-oiled and ruthless Israeli war machine. In A.D. 134, the Romans had expelled the Jews from Judea after the Bar Kokhba revolt and renamed the region Palestine, a name they plucked from the Bible, the name of the Israelites’ ancient enemies, the Philistines. But never had the name Palestinian referred to anything but a region, not to a people or an ethnicity. In the 1960s, however, the KGB and Hajj Amin al-Husseini’s nephew Yasir Arafat created both these allegedly oppressed people and the instrument of their freedom, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

      Ion Mihai Pacepa, who had served as acting chief of Cold War– era Communist Romania’s spy service, later revealed that “the PLO was dreamt up by the KGB, which had a penchant for ‘liberation’ organizations. There was the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created by the KGB in 1964 with help from Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara…the KGB also created the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which carried out numerous bombing attacks…. In 1964 the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Palestinian National Charter—a document that had been drafted in Moscow. The Palestinian National Covenant and the Palestinian Constitution were also born in Moscow, with the help of Ahmed Shuqairy, a KGB influence agent who became the first PLO chairman.”

      • carpediadem says

        Oct 14, 2019 at 9:30 am

        Pacepa outlined all this in his excellent and important book Red Horizons.
        A valuable read.

    • william carr says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 6:14 am

      After the fall of the Roman Empire Muslims invaded what had been Jewish land. So they are/were the occupiers of land that was not theirs. Just as they occupied Egypt and many other countries. Israel is no more ‘palestinian’ than former USSR land is Russian, or African land British or French

      • elee says

        Oct 13, 2019 at 7:21 pm

        Yes, the Romans banished Jews, and Jews took refuge in the Arabian peninsula. They—the Jews—-can take it back any time with my blessing. Islam is a recent interloper.

  2. SFWhite says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    You’re saying I said that and I agree, but my comment isn’t showing. Do you moderate your comments before posting them?

    • J D S says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 10:25 am

      Facts are facts and fiction is fiction….Palestinians are justices bunch of nomads stand trying to make facts into fiction.
      All the land decreed to the Jews by God is theirs and nothing can change that.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 7:30 pm

      Your comment above posted–sometimes it just takes a couple of minutes–that’s about how long this took, since your second comment comes just three minutes after your first one.

  3. Philip Damon says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    I just pre-ordered it, Mr. Spencer. I’m physically disabled and live on an extremely limited income, yet I know this book is very important. Is there any way I can get an autographed copy? 🙂

  4. Wendy says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 7:38 pm

    Thank you so very much, Mr. Spencer, and may G-d bless you. I already preordered your new book and look forward very much to reading it.
    I mailed the following to Rashida Tlaib quite a while back. Did I receive an answer? Of course not. As follows:
    “Back right up there, you foul-mouthed bigot, Rashida Tlaib. “Liberate” what from WHOM? What Zionist “occupation? Israel and its eternal capital, Jerusalem, have been Jewish for over three-and-half millennia, which means that we Jews just so happen to be the Indigenous People of Israel, no matter what colour we are, whether we’re Ashkenazim, Mizrachim, or Sephardim. There are NO “palestinian” people at all save for Arab squatter refugees who all fled the moment the modern State of Israel was reborn and ratified by the now-Useless Nations, hoping for our destruction, except as a convenient term of nomenclature in the British Occupation and the Balfour Declaration. There is absolutely no historical, archaeological, or even forensic evidence that any such a “people” have ever existed. Seriously, there really isn’t any at all, as in nada, rien, nichts, garnicht, zero, zip, zilch, efes, and bubkes.
    I challenge you, Ms. Tlaib, together with Ilhan Omar, Linda Sarsour, and your “G.O.A.T” Jew-hating wanker, Louis Farrakhan, to answer the following questions about the so-called Ancient State of “Palestine.” Any historical revisionist takers? On your mark, get ready, set, go, start lying: When was it founded? What were its borders? What was its predominant religion predating Islam? Who were its rulers? What type of government did it have? What was its system of jurisprudence? What was its penal system? What was its official language? What was its alphabet? Where are all of its writings, historical records, and other important documents? What kind of military did it have? What was its monetary currency called? What were its agricultural products? What were its trade routes? Where are all of its historical artifacts? Where are all of its impressive archaeological sites located? If it actually did exist at all what caused its demise?
    No, that is neither “racism” nor “Islamophobia.” Those are all simply the basic features of all recorded civilisations. If you un-American Antisemitic tossers actually do answer those questions you should probably be teaching Creative Writing instead of wasting everybody’s time peddling false genocidal narratives and trying to legislate against the only Democracy in the entire Middle East because Israel is here to stay. We Jews could all blast off to the Moon and you Fakestinian quislings would probably accuse us of stealing it, as well.
    Even that grizzled Egyptian-born embezzler, Arafat, refused to call his so-called “people” anything but ARABS for over 35 years until it occurred to the cunning ibn-sharmoota that giving them a recognisable name swiped transparently from the British would confer upon them a false sense of legitimacy and claim to JEWISH TERRITORY and we all know how well that particularly stealthy propagandistic ploy worked out because the entire world believes it. That Great Lie would have made Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, extremely proud! Would you like to know where the word “palestinian” truly derives from? Cool! I’m so glad that you asked. It’s from the Latin “palestinas,” which was only employed as a derogatory term for the Jews shlepped back to Rome in chains for bloody sport in the coliseum and/or domestic and sexual servitude. What “palestinas” actually means is PHILISTINE. You intolerant brainwashed Jew-Hating cretins might be entitled to your own opinions but NOT to your own facts so good luck finding any “Law of Return” for a long-extinct ancient and barbaric human sacrificing cannibalistic Mediterranean people anywhere in the State of Israel!”
    AM YISRAEL CHAI V’KAYYUM!

    • abad says

      Oct 12, 2019 at 8:25 pm

      Both the liberal elite and Moslems are gifted at rewriting history. Neither of them can be bothered with facts.

      This book looks like a good read. Mr. Spencer, do you include famous supporters of the PLO, like Vanessa Redgrave and company? I realize this was awhile back (1970s) but germane to the topic.

    • Linde Barrera says

      Oct 14, 2019 at 1:00 am

      To Wendy-Thank you so very much for your comment of Oct.12, 2019 @ 7:38 pm. What you wrote is truth, and you stated it in an exceptional manner.

      What is sad for me (as a Christian) is seeing and hearing a small minority of Jewish people defend Palestinians as being the “down-trodden” of Israel, as though they are unjustly singled out. I wonder where that sentiment comes from and also, why do they feel this way?

      • carpediadem says

        Oct 14, 2019 at 9:49 am

        They are the same type of person as the Christians who defend “Palestinians” ie rebranded Arabs as the not only the downtrodden of Israel but the real owners.
        I wonder where that sentiment comes from and why do they feel this way?

        I’m not defending those Jews because most of them are Lefties, distort history and some of them are simply ignorant but mean well.

        But Wendy, why do Christians band with Palis to defraud Jews of their own Holy Land?

        And why do they ignore the horrendous massacres of Christians in the Mideast, preferring instead to push boycotts of Israel and anti Jewish hatred in general?

        You might consider and explore this instead of wondering about Jews.
        Because Jews who DEFEND Israel tend to be criticised, lied about, attacked, harassed, campaigned against, vilified, abused. By Christians. Who then throw millions of dollars at “Palestine” and support Hamas jihad agsint Jews.
        What are these Christians getting out of this, Wendy?

  5. eduardo odraude says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 8:26 pm

    I pre-ordered, and looking forward to it.

  6. Infidel says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    Palestine is a geographical region that contains Israel, Judea, Samaria and iirc, Sinai as well (Moses and the Israelites were safe at Mt Sinai, which was not under Pharaonic rule). It’s something like Mesopotamia, or Amazon, or the African Savannah, or the Sahara or Gobi or Levant.

    The reason Arabs adapted that term is that it describes their ambitions perfectly – they want Judea, Samaria, Gaza AND Israel. And had Israel never returned Sinai to Egypt, they’d have wanted Sinai as well.

    Really speaking, given the labor shortages in the Gulf, there’s no reason why all Pali Arabs can’t go there, and assimilate into another Arab population. Other than their Naziesque wet dreams

    • Rob says

      Oct 12, 2019 at 8:59 pm

      Imagine Palestinian women as cabin crew on Emirates, or Etihad.

      • Infidel says

        Oct 12, 2019 at 9:32 pm

        I on principle never fly any of these airlines. When I lived in California, I’d always used Singapore, and now that I live on the East coast, I’ve used Austrian and Swiss Airlines to fly internationally.

        So yeah, let Pali gals be crew on Emirates, Etsjihad, Saudia or whatever other airlines fly the region

    • mortimer says

      Oct 12, 2019 at 10:39 pm

      Respectfully disagree with infidel about the definition of Palestine. It is a European concept that is a legacy from the Roman Empire. There was no ‘Palestine’ after the Muslim invasion following the death of Mohammed until the return of Europeans to the region in the Crusades. The Crusaders named it the ‘Kingdom of Jerusalem’ which covered much of what is today Israel. We know the boundaries of Mandatory Palestine which was a temporary colony of Great Britain. Until 1947, the British often referred to Transjordan as ‘East Palestine’. When Arab propagandists say ‘Palestine’ they mean the boundaries of Mandatory Palestine.

      Throughout the time of the caliphates and the Ottoman period, it was thought of as Southern Syria by Arabs. The Ottomans kept changing the borders of their various administrative districts.

      • elee says

        Oct 13, 2019 at 7:26 pm

        The Romans changed the boundaries from time to time, in their Palestine. There were at times recognised boundaries between Jewish land and that of the Philistines. The Philistines were non-Semites who occupied a slice of the Gaza coast. i o ,

  7. Singleton Mosby says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    Who invented whom is an irrelevant question. The ONLY relevant question concerning this piece of real estate is what is the vital interest of the United States? I see none.

    • Infidel says

      Oct 12, 2019 at 9:35 pm

      Problem is that if the US does not, for any reason, support Israel, the sheer cash power of the Arabs would force us to support the Palis, just like fear of China makes Apple hide Taiwan flags in their Maps app. The BDS movement is too powerful to let isolationists such as you have the final say.

      Yeah, the US should have no troops there, shed no blood there, spend no cash there. But that’s different from saying that we should not support Israel b’cos we have no vital national interests

    • eduardo odraude says

      Oct 12, 2019 at 11:28 pm

      What Spencer frequently points out is that Israel is on the front lines of the global jihad and for that reason among others should be supported.

      • Terri Sexton says

        Oct 13, 2019 at 12:54 am

        Israel is a piece of land that God gave to Jacob. Jacob was Jewish and that is who God wanted to have there, Jews.

        • eduardo odraude says

          Oct 14, 2019 at 5:41 pm

          You make a religious argument which may not carry weight with the broadest possible audience. I wanted to make an argument that would carry weight with everyone who wants to defend liberal democracies from their enemies. Both religious and non-religious people can unite on that.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 12:21 am

      SM, Woodrow Wilson came to Europe in 1919 with the idea that every ‘people’ should have its own ‘national home’ to prevent future wars. The United States and many countries followed the United Kingdom in supporting the establishment of a ‘Jewish national home’.

      He said, “The world must be made safe for democracy.”

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 7:34 pm

      Israel is our ally–our only real ally in the region, and the only democracy in the region.

      I believe it is very much in our interests not to allow Muslims to destroy Israel and commit genocide agains the Jews.

    • Linde Barrera says

      Oct 14, 2019 at 1:20 am

      To Singleton Mosby-As per your comment of Oct. 12, 2019 @ 9:14 pm, please do not ever forget that the Jews were the civilizers of the ancient world surrounded by pagans on all sides. The Jews are also among the civilizers of this current world we live in because of their advancements in medical science, agricultural science, military science, space science, archeological science; and Israel offers a religious/spiritual/mystical experience like no other, plus down-home hospitality when you visit their country. Those advancements are in everyone’s favor, not just that of the USA.

  8. Singleton Mosby says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    “Isolationist” is a smear term. like “racist” or “Islamophobe” intended to stifle debate without having to formulate a logical argument. I see no vital interest of the United States that is served by guaranteeing the existence of a Jewish State. Israelis see the United States as a cash cow that provides support in international bodies such as the UN, and is a source of warm bodies that become cannon fodder in lengthy foreign wars that advance the Jewish State’s foreign policy.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Oct 12, 2019 at 11:36 pm

      It is in the vital interest of the US to help whenever possible any liberal democracy under attack by totalitarian forces. Israel is a liberal democracy threatened and attacked by the global jihad and jihad’s totalitarian goals. If the liberal democracies don’t hang together, they’ll hang separately.

      • Battle says

        Oct 12, 2019 at 11:54 pm

        Robert Spencer hits nail on head. Good.
        .

    • Philip Damon says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 1:30 am

      Are you an anti-semite? Sounds like it to me. If I’m wrong, please explain why.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 7:35 pm

      It sounds as Singleton Mosby has a great deal in common with homicidal Mohammedans.

    • Linde Barrera says

      Oct 14, 2019 at 1:38 am

      To Singleton Mosby- Your comment of Oct. 12, 2019 @ 11:10 pm shows factual ignorance on your part. An “isolationist” is a person who does not want to get involved in other countries’ problems, and there is nothing wrong with that kind of thinking. It is not a “smear term”.

      Furthermore, anyone who has any knowledge of the UN knows it is a very corrupt organization and is absolutely useless except for paying salaries to many people who are cultivated for their roles as “problem solvers” when they are actually adding to the problems by not having any legal authority to make changes. So the UN is a “big bag of wind”. You should not idealize it.

    • carpediadem says

      Oct 14, 2019 at 10:08 am

      Vile nonsense, Singleton Mosby. Israel and the US, being allies, exchange projects. US sends funds to Israel on the condition Israel purchases arms from the US.
      Hardly one-sided and your country does not subsidise Israel at all.

      It does, however, subsidise various Islamic countries to its detriment.
      Does this bother you, since those countries threaten the US on a regular basis?

      Clearly, however, you don’t understand the concept of alliance or dare I say friendship, which I notice you do not deplore for any other country which has a relationship with the US.

      AS to who invented whom, we need to know this for historical and political accuracy.

      But bury your head in your contaminated sand, by all means.

  9. Battle says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 11:57 pm

    Sorry. Was supposed to be new, not a reply.

  10. Battle says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 11:58 pm

    Sorry. Was not supposed to be a reply.

  11. mortimer says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 12:54 am

    Arabs admit the alleged ‘Palestinian’ nationality was invented in 1964 …

    While serving as Hamas’ Minister of the Interior and of National Security, Fathi Hammad speaking on Al-Hekma TV said in March 2012:

    “Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians…”

    The Pallies are grandchildren of 20th century immigrants from Egypt and Arabia.

  12. Sidney Penny says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 5:15 am

    Lovery the term newly minted

  13. infidel says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 6:04 am

    It is just like who invented the word Rohingya or even Kashmiri Muslims…. They claim everything on earth without working for it.

    • elee says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 7:28 pm

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 7:38 pm

      So true, Infidel.

  14. Angemon says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 8:21 am

    So who invented the “Palestinians,” and why?

    Not going to say it was the Soviets to use against staunch US ally Israel, but it was the Soviets to use against staunch US ally Israel…

  15. Sally Donaldson says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 8:57 am

    The founding member of the Palestinian Terrorist dictatorship was Yassir Arafat who was born in El Arish Egypt .The EU, USA and the rest of the World has sent Billions of Dollars in aid to these Bloodsucking Parasites,Arafat and his wicked Widow Sula listed in the PanamaPapers with a net worth of $2.3 Billion.Abbas and his 2 sons Are at $1.7 Billion .Erekat the thief at $880 million

  16. Gamzu says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 11:20 am

    What war did the US fight to advance Israel’s foreign policy? First Gulf war was fought to save Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, our oil supply, and the principle that one state must not be allowed to swallow up another. Second Gulf was fought over WMDs and Saddam’s brutality and support of terrorism. This war actually hurt Israel by empowering Iran, and there were critics at the time who predicted this would happen. Afghan war was a response to 9/11, and the reason bin Laden attacked us in the first place was not our support of Israel but his perception that our support of Egypt, Gulf states, and other western-oriented Muslim countries was standing in the way of his grand plans for a global caliphate.

  17. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 12:56 pm

    Nikki Haley (former USA Ambassador
    to the United Nations):

    “The number of actual Palestinian refugees is classified.

    There are multiple people working to get it unclassified.”

    SOURCE: The better and stronger
    we make Israel, the safer we make the world

    by Dr. Miriam Adelson, 2019 June 28
    http://www.jns.org/nikki-haley-the-better-and-stronger-we-make-israel-the-safer-we-make-the-world/

    PS: WHY should the number of Palestinian refugees be classified?

  18. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 12:57 pm

    Palestinian Media Watch said:

    “As Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch
    has documented, P.A. [Palestinian Authority]
    leaders are backing the decision to continue
    payments to terrorists and their families,
    even if it comes at the expense of ordinary,
    law-abiding Palestinian citizens.”

    SOURCE: As world leaders gathered
    in Bahrain, PA continued to prioritize ‘pay for slay’

    https://www.jns.org/as-world-leaders-gathered-in-bahrain-pa-continued-to-prioritize-pay-for-slay/

  19. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 12:59 pm

    Pinhas Inbari (a veteran Arab affairs correspondent) said:

    “Saudi Arabia still remembers and resents the Palestinians’
    support for Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein when he
    invaded Kuwait in [year] 1990 and Saudi Arabia in 1991.”

    SOURCE:
    The Real Catastrophe for the Palestinians
    by Pinhas Inbari, 2019 May 16
    http://www.algemeiner.com/2019/05/16/the-real-catastrophe-for-the-palestinians/

  20. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    Jonathan S. Tobin (editor in chief of JNS dot org) said:

    “The Palestinians are still the prisoners of a mindset
    that causes them to refuse to accept the legitimacy
    of a Jewish state, no matter where its borders are drawn.”

    SOURCE:
    Will a secular surge spark a revolution in Israeli politics?
    by Jonathan S. Tobin, 2019 June 5
    http://www.jns.org/opinion/will-a-secular-surge-spark-a-revolution-in-israeli-politics/

  21. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    In this short article, Yossi Kuperwasser [a retired
    Brigadier General of the Israeli Army] explains that
    the Palestinians are not serious about peace with Israel,
    because the Palestinian government refuses to stop
    [or even reduce] the money rewards it pays to terrorists
    who kill Jewish civilians [including Jewish teenagers and children]:

    Still no partner for peace
    by Yossi Kuperwasser:

    https://www.jns.org/opinion/still-no-partner-for-peace/

  22. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:06 pm

    Ambassador Ron Dermer said:

    “The Palestinians have repeatedly refused to accept
    a nation-state for themselves if it means accepting
    a nation-state for the Jewish people alongside it.

    In 1937, the Palestinians rejected the Peel Commission
    report that called for two states for two peoples; in 1947,
    they rejected the U.N. partition plan that did the same.

    In 2000 at Camp David and again in 2008 the Palestinians
    rejected new proposals that would have created a Palestinian state.

    The Palestinians rejected peace both before and after
    the creation of Israel, before Israel gained control of
    the territories in 1967 and after Israel vacated Gaza in 2005.

    The Palestinians have always been more concerned with
    destroying the Jewish state than with creating a state of their own.

    The core of the conflict remains the persistent refusal
    of the Palestinians to recognize the nation-state of
    the Jewish people in ANY borders.”

    SOURCE: Ten Deadly Lies about Israel
    by Ambassador Ron Dermer, 2015 October 20:
    http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/ten-deadly-lies-about-israel-213272

  23. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    “Those who believe the Palestinians long for statehood
    should ask them why they never demanded independence
    during the 19 years [from 1948 to 1967] their Arab brethren
    [Jordan] occupied the West Bank…”

    SOURCE:
    The Two-State Unicorn by Mitchell Bard, 2019 May 10
    https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/05/10/the-two-state-unicorn/

  24. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:08 pm

    Melanie Phillips (columnist for “The Times of London”) said:

    “The ancestors of today’s Palestinian Arabs
    were Hitler’s army in the Middle East; and their
    descendants can justly be regarded as the last
    undefeated front in the Nazi war against the Jews.”

    SOURCE: article by Melanie Phillips, 2019 May 16
    Tlaib strives to alter narrative of hate fomented by Arabs
    http://www.jns.org/opinion/tlaib-strives-to-alter-narrative-of-hate-fomented-by-arabs/

    • carpediadem says

      Oct 14, 2019 at 10:00 am

      That’s very well put.

  25. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    Abraham Cooper said:

    “The Palestinian Authority and Hamas both use
    a school curriculum that denies Israel’s existence,
    and teaches children to venerate terrorists.”

    SOURCE: No Palestinian-Israel Peace in 2019
    — but Here Are Some Developments We Can Expect

    by Abraham Cooper, 2018/12/31
    http://www.algemeiner.com/2018/12/31/no-palestinian-israel-peace-in-2019-but-here-are-some-developments-we-can-expect/

  26. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    Zuheir Mohsen, a leader of the PLO
    (Palestine Liberation Organization),
    said this in an interview with Trouw
    (a Dutch daily newspaper) in March 1977:

    “The Palestinian people does not exist.

    The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means
    for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel
    for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference
    between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.

    Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today
    about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab
    national interests demand that we posit the existence
    of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.”

    ===================================

    Who Were the 1948 Arab Refugees?
    by Yoram Ettinger

    http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/06/06/who-were-the-1948-arab-refugees/

  27. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:17 pm

    Mr. Alon Ben-Meir (a Leftist-Progressive college professor) said:

    “In Jordan, out of more than three million Palestinians,
    almost 2.2 million are registered as refugees, although
    the vast majority have full Jordanian citizenship.

    In Lebanon, nearly all Palestinians (approximately 500,000)
    are considered refugees and denied citizenship, and the same
    is true in Syria with almost 530,000 registered as refugees.

    In all three, the vast majority of Palestinian refugees
    were in fact born in those countries.”

    SOURCE: The End of the ‘Right of Return’
    by Alon Ben-Meir, 2018 August 12
    http://www.algemeiner.com/2018/08/12/the-end-of-the-right-of-return/

  28. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    Palestinian Authority prioritizes salaries
    to terrorists over medical care for ill Palestinians:

    http://www.jns.org/palestinian-authority-prioritizes-salaries-to-terrorists-over-medical-care-for-ill-palestinians/

  29. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    Why Are There Still Palestinian Refugees?

    a YouTube video by PragerU (4 minutes 22 seconds):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY0FOPa-j-E

    • Linde Barrera says

      Oct 14, 2019 at 1:29 am

      To Mr.Cohen-Bless you for providing us with this vital information.

  30. Mr. Cohen says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 1:28 pm

    In 1958, former director of UNRWA Ralph Galloway
    declared angrily while in Jordan:

    “The Arab states do NOT want to solve
    the [Palestinian] refugee problem.

    They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront
    to the United Nations, and as a weapon against Israel.

    Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees live or die.”

    SOURCE: From Time Immemorial:
    The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict
    over Palestine
    (chapter 2, page 23)
    by Joan Peters, year 1984, JKAP Publications

    ===================================

    http://www.algemeiner.com/2019/04/17/the-false-nakba-narrative/

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2019 at 7:39 pm

      Thanks for those links, Mr Cohen.

  31. gravenimage says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    Who invented the “Palestinians”?
    …………………

    Yes–the local Muslims were not called “Palestinians” until after 1967–it was the Soviets who came up with this term.

    I am looking forward to reading Robert Spencer’s new book.

    • carpediadem says

      Oct 14, 2019 at 9:56 am

      Me too. I know all of this here but look forward to seeing how Robert writes it all.

  32. elee says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 7:43 pm

    I would have nominated Adolf Hitler as creator of the Palestinian purported nationality. It was he who subsidised Hasan al-Bana when he launched the Muslim Brotherhood, it was he whom the Muslims supported with a generation of al Lah in Heaven, Hitler on earth. It was he who supported and sheltered the Mufti of Jerusalem, from the 1930s on. It was he who gave their antiSemitism hopes of world domination that echoes today in Gaza and Malaysia and the no-go ones of France. Will his long game prevail in the end? will

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