The “Palestinian People” And How They Grew

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Editor’s note: This is the third part of a four-part series. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.

Of all the “peoples” who have presented to the world their claims to peoplehood, and some from that also lay claim to a right to statehood —  from the Tibetans, to the Basques, to the Bretons, to the Kurds, to the Berbers, to the Ibos of Nigeria (who tried in the Biafra War to defend their independent state of Biafra) — it is the “Palestinian people” who have been most single-minded and successful. Of course they’ve had a lot of help. Public relations firms were hired by the rich Arabs to help turn the “Arab refugees” into “Palestinian refugees,” to plant the notion of the “Palestinian people” in the international consciousness, and to burnish the “Palestinian” image, a neat trick given the repulsive appearance of their leader, Yassir Arafat. Twenty-two states of the Arab League did their best to promote the “Palestinian people”; so, too, did the thirty-five non-Arab Muslim members of the O.I.C., the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Many an international forum held in the last several decades has also included ritual denunciations of Israel, and of some aspect of its treatment, in peace or in war, of the “Palestinian people,” whatever the putative topic — Treatment of Women, Abuse of the Child, the Fate of the Family, Water Resources, World Health — at international forums. As Ambassador Nikki Haley keeps indignantly charging, the U.N. and its ancillary organizations, such as the Commission on Human Rights, spend an incredible amount of time focused on Israel. More than half of the resolutions passed by the U.N. Human Rights Commission have dealt with criticizing Israel and its supposed mistreatment of the “Palestinian people.” This was especially noticeable during the Gaza War. Never mind that Colonel Richard Kemp, the former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, has said that Israel “did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.” As a result of this fixation on Israel at the U.N., which is only one aspect of the diplomatic Jihad against the Jewish state, other issues of great moment are often ignored, and the cost to those who never get a hearing because the “Palestinians” and their supporters have monopolized so much of the attention of so many international organizations, has been great.

Yet the concept of a “Palestinian people” is suspect. First, there is the matter of the recent origin of the “Palestinian people.” Prior to 1948, the word “Palestinian” was always applied to the Jewish inhabitants of Mandatory Palestine (which was entrusted to Great Britain, as Mandatory Authority, solely for “the establishment of the Jewish National Home” by facilitating Jewish immigration and “close Jewish settlement on the land”). The Arabs did not, at that point, appropriate the word “Palestinian” for themselves. Indeed, in the records of the United Nations, beginning in 1948 and right through to a few months after the Six-Day War, when tens of thousands of pages were devoted to the Arab-Israeli dispute, not a single Arab spokesman, diplomat, or head of state appears to have ever used the phrase “Palestinian people.”

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The defeat suffered by the Arabs in the Six-Day War of June 1967 changed that. The Arabs recognized after that disaster that they could not, for now, defeat Israel militarily. They would instead have to engage patiently in a propaganda war to pressure Israel into yielding the territory it had won in the recent conflict, before again going in for the kill. The Arabs understood that the conflict had to be redefined to make it more palatable to the outside world. “War is deceit,” said Muhammad, and “Allah is the best of the deceivers” (Qur’an 3:54, 8:30). The Arabs took that to heart.

They had made constant threats to “exterminate the Jews,” but the Jews and their state were still there, and Israel had won still more territory. Azzam Pasha (Secretary-General of the Arab League in 1948), had in October 1947 written that if there were to be a war with the Jews (i.e., if the Jews went ahead and insisted on declaring their independent state, which would trigger hostilities), then it would surely be “a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades.” Twenty years later, on May 16 ,1967, Gamal Abdel Nasser promised in a radio speech to hysterical Cairenes that “the existence of Israel has continued too long…. The peak hour has come. The battle has come in which we shall destroy Israel,” and a day later repeated the threat: “All Egypt is now prepared to plunge into total war which will put an end to Israel.” And then came the great defeat, that led to Nasser’s early death, and the beginning of another chapter in the unending war of Muslim Arabs against the Infidel state of Israel. That chapter begins in the months following the Six-Day War, as Arab spokesmen reworked their pitch: now they muted their desire and duty to destroy Israel (no more talk of “extermination,” or “momentous massacres” or “putting an end to Israel”), and instead proclaimed their struggle for the “legitimate rights” (who could object to “legitimate rights”?) of the “Palestinian people” — a people who came into factitious existence only in order to create a twenty-third Arab state, in order ultimately to deprive another people, a real and long-suffering people, the Jews, of the only nation-state that they have ever had.

The Arabs might at any time, from 1949 to 1967, have given the “Palestinian people” a state on the “West Bank.” But they didn’t, because at the time there was no “Palestinian people.” They  hadn’t yet been invented, for the Arabs didn’t yet see the propagandistic need. Or they might have fully integrated the Arab refugees who had fled to Arab lands. There was money, there was land, there was a need for manpower in the Arab states. But the Arab states wanted, for  political reasons, to keep the “Arab refugee” crisis from being solved. They want to keep the pressure on Israel to take them all back, as a fifth column in the making. As Elfan Rees, the Advisor on Refugees to the World Council of Churches, wrote in 1957:

“I hold the view that, political issues aside, the Arab refugee problem is by far the easiest post-war refugee problem to solve by integration. By faith, language, race and by social organisation they are indistinguishable from their fellows of their host countries. There is room for them in Syria and Iraq. There is a developing demand for the kind of manpower they represent. More unusually still, there is the money to make this integration possible. The United Nations General Assembly, five years ago, donated a sum of $200,000,000 to provide, and here I quote the phrase “homes and jobs” for the Arab refugees. That money remains unspent, not because these tragic people are strangers in a strange land — because they are not, not because there is no room for them to be established — because there is, but simply for political reasons.”

Remember that phrase: “By faith, language, race and by social organisation they are indistinguishable from their fellows of their host countries.” Ten years later, every outlet of Arab and Muslim propaganda would be enlisted to convince the world that the “Arab refugees” and the Arabs who remained in Israel, and in the territories won by Israel in the Six-Day War, were a unique people, quite distinguishable from their fellow Arabs, and deserving of a state of their own. And the Arabs who, in the war for the minds of men, exploited the “Palestinian people’ on behalf of the Jihad against Israel, were off and running.

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SRN99
SRN99
6 years ago

There is no such country called Palestine. Stop dreaming, your stupid followers of pervert Mohammad

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  SRN99

Too late for any of that. They’ve all been programmed.

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Amandadturner
6 years ago
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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  SRN99

Agree. Only Palestinians get the support and Anti-Israel propaganda is run in UN and across the world is because of the 56 Islamofascists countries

that support them with their numbers and buy out politicians and bureaucrats with oil funds.

Did you know NATO Member , Islamic Republic of Turkey allows harvesting of organs from refugee childrens http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8

And that includes killing children ! And even UN was aware of it for over 3 years but keeps blaming syrian govt because its sunni saudi/qatar/Turkey that run the Anti-Assad propaganda to oust secular shia Assad govt !

BeverlyD
Beverly
6 years ago
Reply to  SRN99

There was a place called Palestine, and there were people called Palestinians (the people Romans called Philistines), but it is now called Isarel and those people are now called Isaerlites. There are no longer Palestinian people, only Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” – cultural jihad.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Only Palestinians get the support and Anti-Israel propaganda is run in UN and across the world is because of the 56 Islamofascists countries that support them with their numbers and buy out politicians and bureaucrats with oil funds.

Did you know NATO Member , Islamic Republic of Turkey allows harvesting of organs from refugee childrens http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8

And that includes killing children ! And even UN was aware of it for over 3 years but keeps blaming syrian govt because its sunni saudi/qatar/Turkey that run the Anti-Assad propaganda to oust secular shia Assad govt !

Its about Money and clout.

Rolland
Rolland
6 years ago

What do Islam and cancer have in common? Both can be cured with a large dose of radiation.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago
Reply to  Rolland

and there is no such thing as a little bit of cancer

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

That being the case, then “Israelophobia” must be made intolerable and unacceptable as well, while banning things, calling muslims “asians” is yellow journalism.

Kristi17
Kristi17
6 years ago

There is NO such state of palestine, they are all Arabs muslims and muslim brotherhood members and Sympathizers!!

The Holy Land of Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America and our Christian Earth, belongs too Devout Jewish and Christians!!

United We Stand with Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America and our Christian Earth, Divided We FALL!!

Please Pray for our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America and Israel-Yisrael Everyday and our Christian Earth Everyday!! “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!

Love Always and Shalom ( Peace ) Everyone, YSIC o/

Kristi Ann

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

“Everything about palestine is illegal.”

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

the UN is past its best before date

Maranatha
Maranatha
6 years ago

Nothing to worry about:
Al-Aksa will be destroyed (the ”fortress of strangers”):
Isaiah 25:2-4
In verse 4 even the Holy Wall is mentioned:

”For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks,
a fortified city, into ruins;
the fortress of strangers is no longer a city;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You.
The cities of violent nations will fear You.
4 For You have been a stronghold for the poor,
a stronghold for the needy person in his distress,
a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat.
When the breath of the violent
is like rain against a wall,
5 like heat in a dry land,
You subdue the uproar of barbarians.
As[a] the shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day,
so He silences the song of the violent.”

The last verse indicates destruction will happen in summer??.
See also Isaiah 26:5.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

palestine never existed, it does not exist now, nor will it ever exist. palestinians are a cult of fictional cartoon characters being exploited b a few wealthy muslim entrepreneurs.

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Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago

Palestine is a country that never was for a people who never were.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Aren’t they just descendants of the Arabs who violently invaded the Holy Land and conquered Jerusalem centuries ago?

Butseriously
Butseriously
6 years ago

Palestinians are not Palestinians. Palestine is Judea, previous name Israel. Vote for UN Truth Here: https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-security-council-palestine-is-judea-the-roman-name-for-land-of-the-jews?source_location=minibar

william carrD
william carr
6 years ago

The left rants about colonialism and apartheid but the Arab/Islamic colonialism is the longest in history. They also colonised the whole of the Mid East, Northern Africa, and countries to the North East and India ( a remnant of that remains in benighted Pakistan and Bangladesh) many centuries before European colonialism got started. They also instituted the slave trade long before Europeans got involved. It is the Arabs who are where they should not be, not the Israelis who are on their own ancestral lands.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Q: What is the capital of Palestine?
A: About $35.

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
6 years ago

It is time for the U.S.A. to withdraw from the U.N. and if anyone will do it it is Trump. They are there for one purpose a one world tyrannical communist government for the globalists to rule and the people as slaves!

marblenecltr
marblenecltr
6 years ago

The British Mandate of Palestine was maintained by those who favored the Muslims and held Jews in contempt. The Hebron Massacre took place almost forty years before the establishment of the sovereign nation of Israel and was made possible by the disarming of Jews while allowing Muslims to bear arms. Further, what was to be a homeland (in a very small piece of geography) for Jews was prevented fulfillment of that noble promise by the British forbidding of Jews to go there, and, later, to be prepared to resist any easily foreseen attack by Muslim nations. After Israel was established and in spite of the attacks from Muslims during the lack of concern by almost all other nations, the promises of the Balfour Declaration were kept, and Muslims had more than freedom of religion and were given the rights of every Jewish citizen, including voting and holding any political office. They had far more freedoms, greater education, and a higher standard of living than could be obtained in any Muslim country. So what is the problem? The answer is obvious.

freepetta
freepetta
6 years ago

Trust Palestinians like u would any terrorist organization!

Franklin Archambault
Franklin Archambault
6 years ago

There is no palestine and never was

מיכאל דייצ'ב
מיכאל דייצ'ב
6 years ago

Palestinians – Fake Nation with Fake History!

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