"Palestinians" always had and still have a "homeland"
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Posted by Thomas Mueller on 12:26:38 2007/06/22
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Re: Fund Palestinian moderates, not Mahmoud Abbas posted by Enough
Mark Twain's observations in Innocents Abroad are most relevant in understanding today's Middle East. Mark Twain found the 1860's Holy Land to be a desolate wasteland, sparsely populated and poverty-stricken. Trekking down to Jerusalem, his troupe finds only one location that was well-cultivated - the habitation of an ancient group of Jews in Shechem.
Twain's writings confirm Turkish census records and "Palestinian" documentation, establishing once and for all that the "Palestinian" population in the Holy Land represents recent immigration. Arabs were actually abandoning "Palestine", before Jewish immigration and investment reversed the tide.
According to their own version of history, the Palestinians already have a homeland, called either Jordan or Egypt! Arab leaders continue to hold their noses and conspire for the interim to maintain a Hashemite monarchy of recent Saudi origin, yet Jordan's population is and always has been "Palestinian". Meanwhile Gaza remains Egyptian as memories of "Black September" and recent events brutally confirm.
Today's "Palestinian conflict" is not a civil war it is a clash between West Bank Jordanians and Gaza Egyptians. The so-called "Palestinian state" is an ersatz creation with no basis in history. Zoheir Muhsin, head of the PLO Military Operations Department and member of the PLO Executive Council (1977), said it best: "The existence of a separate Palestinian identity is there only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new expedient to continue the fight against Zionism and for Arab unity."
Hamas' ascendance will play to Israel's advantage given the provocation of "occupation" or "apartheid" is no longer operative!
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