There is no such thing as a Palestinian people – believe it!

 There is no such thing as a Palestinian people – believe it! - By Joseph Farah- https://www.wnd.com/2024/08/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-palestinian-people-believe-it/ 'The West must not surrender to terrorism by granting the killers just what they want' There are plenty of knuckleheads in Chicago today who will not like this column. It will make them angry. It will drive them insane if they are not already. No "Palestinian" people? I was converted to believe it by the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir as she made a bold political statement for which she was pilloried. That's what happens sometimes when someone speaks the truth in the face of shameless lies. What she said was this: "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people." Muslim propagandists ever since have ridiculed and derided her comment. They charged her with "racism." They accused her of historical revisionism. They accused her of being out of touch withreality and of being in denial. But Meir was absolutely right. And others who agree are just as correct. In fact, she's hardly the only person to make such a claim. In moments of candor, many Muslim and Arab leaders have admitted she was right – that there is no distinct Palestinian culturalor national identity. Here are just two of my favorites – all spoken or written long after Golda Meir made her pointedobservation. Time does not change the facts. Way back on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said: "The Palestinianpeople 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 forpolitical 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. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereignstate with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unitePalestine and Jordan." That's pretty clear, isn't it? It's even more specific than Golda Meir's statement. It reaffirms what I have written on this subject. And it is hardly the only such statement of its kind.Former PLO leader Yasser Arafat himself made a very definitive and unequivocal statement along these lines as late as 1993. It demonstrates conclusively that the Palestinian nationhood argument is the real strategic deception – one geared to set up the destructionof Israel. In fact, on the same day Arafat signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn in 1993, he explained his actions on Jordanian TV. Here's what he said: "Since we cannot defeatIsrael in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow againstIsrael." No matter how many people claim that the aspirations for Palestinian statehood are genuine and the key to peace in the Middle East, they are still deceiving themselves. I've said it before and I will say it again: In the history of the world, Palestine has never existed as a nation. The region known as Palestine was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic andChristian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their ancestral homeland. It was never ruled by Arabs as a separate nation. Why now has it become such a critical priority? The answer is because of a massive deception campaign and relentless terrorism over 40 years. Golda Meir was right. Her statement is validated by the truth of history and by the candid, but not widely circulated, pronouncements of Arafat and his lieutenants. Israel and the West must not surrender to terrorism by granting the killers just what they want – a public relations triumph and a strategic victory. It's not too late to say no to terrorism.It's not too late to say no to another Arab terror state. It's not too late to tell the truth about Palestine. Truth does not change. Truth is truth. If something was true 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, it is still true today. And the truth is that only 40 years ago, there was very little confusion on this issue of Palestine.