"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not".

[Roudy]

Guess who said this:

"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not".

- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 -

Hitti was educated at an American Presbyterian mission school at Suq al-Gharb and then at the American University of Beirut. After graduating in 1908 he taught at the American University of Beirut before moving to Columbia University where he earned his PhD in 1915 and taught Semitic languages. After World War I he returned to AUB and taught there until 1926. In February 1926 he was offered a Chair at Princeton University which he held until he retired in 1954. He was both Professor of Semitic Literature and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages. After formal retirement he accepted a position at Harvard University. He also taught in the summer schools at the University of Utah and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He subsequently held a research position at the University of Minnesota. Philip Hitti almost single-handedly created the discipline of Arabic Studies in the United States.

So what? Until the 1990s there were no Belarus or Slovenia, either. Are you saying they don't deserve a homeland?

No, I'm saying there was never a Palestinian people, and they certainly weren't known to be Arab Muslims.

As far as a homeland, it depends at who's expense and whether they truly DESERVE a second Arab Palestine on top of Jordan. I mean, does the world truly need yet a another Islamic terrorist shithole and menace to civilized society? I don't think so.

There are plenty of people that truly deserve a Homeland than the so called Palestinian fraudsters, such as the Kurds, who are a peaceful and tolerant society.