The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people
Concerning the Holy Land, the chairman of the Syrian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 stated:
"The only Arab domination since the Conquest in 635 c.e. hardly lasted, as such, 22 years".
The preceding declarations by Arab politicians have been done before 1967, as they had not the slightest knowledge of the existence of any Palestinian people. How and when did they change their mind and decided that such people existed? When the State of Israel was reborn in 1948 c.e., the "Palestinians" did not exist yet, the Arabs had still not discovered that "ancient" people. They were too busy with the purpose of annihilating the new Sovereign State and did not intend to create any Palestinian entity, but only to distribute the land among the already existing Arab states. They were defeated. They attempted again to destroy Israel in 1967, and were humiliated in only six days, in which they lost the lands that they had usurped in 1948. In those 19 years of Arab occupation of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, neither Jordan nor Egypt suggested to create a "Palestinian" state, since the still non-existing Palestinians would have never claimed their alleged right to have their own state... Paradoxically, during the British Mandate, it was not any Arab group but the Jews that were known as "Palestinians"!
What other Arabs declared after the Six-Day War:
"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel".
- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -
"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people".
- Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat -
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people
"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel".
- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -
"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people".
- Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat -
"As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Everyone knew their origin was not from the Canaanites, but ironically, this is the kind of stuff our education in the Middle East included. The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today's Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, muslim Sherkas from Russia, muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life by Abdul Qader Al-Husseni (the leader of the Palestinian revolution) after being accused of selling land to Jews. He used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants".
- Walid Shoebat, an "ex-Palestinian" Arab -
"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel".
- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -
"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people".
- Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat -
"As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Everyone knew their origin was not from the Canaanites, but ironically, this is the kind of stuff our education in the Middle East included. The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today's Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, muslim Sherkas from Russia, muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life by Abdul Qader Al-Husseni (the leader of the Palestinian revolution) after being accused of selling land to Jews. He used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants".
- Walid Shoebat, an "ex-Palestinian" Arab -
Golda Meir
The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people
Golda Meir
‘there is no such thing as a Palestinian.’” This reference to Meir is obligatory in Israel-phobic polemics of this sort, and I believe the requirement has been formally codified and is carved in stone somewhere. In fact, Meir said no such thing, even in the original interview from which the professors’ “famously remarked” quotation supposedly originates. In the longer version of their article, the authors cite (footnote 39) as their source for this information page 147 of Rashid Khalidi’s book Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. Therein Khalidi, whose name the professors misspell, quotes Meir as remarking that “There was no such thing as Palestinians…. They did not exist.’” In fact, contrary to Walt and Mearsheimer’s misquotation of Khalidi’s misrepresentation, what Meir in fact stated (in an interview with The Sunday Times in 1969), in response to being asked if she considered “the emergence of the Palestinian fighting forces, the Fedayeen, an important new factor in the Middle East” was the following observation:
Important, no. A new factor, yes. There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian State? It was either southern Syria before the First World War and than it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.
Mearsheimer and Walt’s distorted rendering of this observation does not even pass the smell test, much less verification of the actual sources they cite. Furthermore, writing in the New York Times in 1976 (January 14, page 35) Meir stated:
To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership; for this reason I should like to clarify my position in regard to the Palestinian issue. I have been charged with being rigidly insensitive to the question of the Palestinian Arabs. In evidence of this I am supposed to have said, ‘There are no Palestinians.’ My actual words were: ‘There is no Palestine people. There are Palestinian refugees.’ The distinction is not semantic. My statement was based on a lifetime of debates with Arab nationalists who vehemently excluded a separatist Palestinian Arab nationalism from their formulations.
Yet even in the original interview, as cited by Walt and Mearsheimer via their recycling of Khalidi’s parsing, it is clear that Meir was referring to Palestinian nationhood and not Palestinians in general, whose existence she clearly acknowledged both in that comment and in everything else she ever said about them.
Sadly, this Meir “quote” and its myriad permutations have become a prized staple of anti-Israel propaganda, even though Meir never expressed such an idea and even corrected—in the New York Times, no less
Ben Gurion
similar.....
Golda Meir
‘there is no such thing as a Palestinian.’” This reference to Meir is obligatory in Israel-phobic polemics of this sort, and I believe the requirement has been formally codified and is carved in stone somewhere. In fact, Meir said no such thing, even in the original interview from which the professors’ “famously remarked” quotation supposedly originates. In the longer version of their article, the authors cite (footnote 39) as their source for this information page 147 of Rashid Khalidi’s book Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. Therein Khalidi, whose name the professors misspell, quotes Meir as remarking that “There was no such thing as Palestinians…. They did not exist.’” In fact, contrary to Walt and Mearsheimer’s misquotation of Khalidi’s misrepresentation, what Meir in fact stated (in an interview with The Sunday Times in 1969), in response to being asked if she considered “the emergence of the Palestinian fighting forces, the Fedayeen, an important new factor in the Middle East” was the following observation:
Important, no. A new factor, yes. There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian State? It was either southern Syria before the First World War and than it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.
Mearsheimer and Walt’s distorted rendering of this observation does not even pass the smell test, much less verification of the actual sources they cite. Furthermore, writing in the New York Times in 1976 (January 14, page 35) Meir stated:
To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership; for this reason I should like to clarify my position in regard to the Palestinian issue. I have been charged with being rigidly insensitive to the question of the Palestinian Arabs. In evidence of this I am supposed to have said, ‘There are no Palestinians.’ My actual words were: ‘There is no Palestine people. There are Palestinian refugees.’ The distinction is not semantic. My statement was based on a lifetime of debates with Arab nationalists who vehemently excluded a separatist Palestinian Arab nationalism from their formulations.
Yet even in the original interview, as cited by Walt and Mearsheimer via their recycling of Khalidi’s parsing, it is clear that Meir was referring to Palestinian nationhood and not Palestinians in general, whose existence she clearly acknowledged both in that comment and in everything else she ever said about them.
Sadly, this Meir “quote” and its myriad permutations have become a prized staple of anti-Israel propaganda, even though Meir never expressed such an idea and even corrected—in the New York Times, no less
Ben Gurion
similar.....
You have to go in there (Gaza) with a powerful force and clean it up once and for all, no holes barred.
The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people
You have to go in there (Gaza) with a powerful force and clean it up once and for all, no holes barred.
That is the only language they understand.
Showing any weakness or concessions will only make the situation worse.
People of the world have respect for the victor not the weakling.
It is a disgrace that the Israeli government allow this situation continue for years.
Is Israel incapable to defend its citizens.
What a shame.
Where is the spirit of the 6 day war.
You have to go in there (Gaza) with a powerful force and clean it up once and for all, no holes barred.
That is the only language they understand.
Showing any weakness or concessions will only make the situation worse.
People of the world have respect for the victor not the weakling.
It is a disgrace that the Israeli government allow this situation continue for years.
Is Israel incapable to defend its citizens.
What a shame.
Where is the spirit of the 6 day war.
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