So essentially, Palestine is a bunch of Arab squatters infringing on Israeli lands."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 -
"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it".
- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -
"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not".
- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 -
"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria".
- Representant of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 -
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".
"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".
- An ex-Palestinian terrorist
It's an invented name for an invented people and an excuse to attack, after Muslims were unable to prevent the formation of a Jewish state.
Your the invented people.
Jews have been around for thousands of years, Fatima. Palestinians are a hoax. Not even their prophet Mohammad mentions the word Palestine or Palestinians in the Koran, nor do the Ottomans who controlled the ME for 700 years. Get it right.
Your twelve tribes are intermarried with Arabs, Canaanites , Sumerians and Egyptians since the invention and not only that you took from their religions along with the Persians and made it yours, as Christians took your religion and made it theirs. There are no pure Jews , but you can be Israelites if you were born in Israel, , but you and I both know , when your Hebrew language died so did the Jews. Persians have been around longer than you. Also the British said you could move there but to respect the people who were living there, you have not, and Britain is not God and never was God.
OH the quote from an "ex Palestine terrorist" as a hoot, and yet he calls himself a Palestine terrorist.
If Hebrew died then how come in 1919 the Mandate for Palestine decreed that it was to be used in Palestine. You will find that the language that died was Arabic, and another language took its place.