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Palestinian Nation

Posted by Galilee Mountain Peak Post on
MYTH: Palestine was once a country ruled by Palestinians. FALSE

Truth: Palestine is the name of a region, not a people. It is the name the Romans gave to the Jewish land of  “Judea,” the southern part of ancient Israel, over 2000 years ago, and so chosen as to dishonor the Jews and obliterate their history. This happened 600 years before the Arabs emerged from the Arabian Peninsula and 600 years before Muhammad and the invention of Islam. The region of Palestine (which changed from time to time and included today’s Jordan and Lebanon as far north as the Litani river, and areas in Syria including the the Golan Heights) has been ruled by many leaders and empires: Roman, Byzantine, Crusaders, Mamlukes, British, and quite a few others, but never has there been a nation of Palestinians ruling themsleves in their own land. There has never existed a Palestinian government, a Palestinian culture,  a Palestinian language, or even a Palestinian coin. The British “Mill” coinage used during the Mandate period carries the abbreviation “(א”י) which stands for “Land of Israel.” The term “Palestinian” was coined during the first part of the 20th century in reference to Jews. The Arabs were referred to as Arabs. Only after the Six Day War in 1967 was there an instantaneous existence of Arab Palestinians. One of many statements attesting to this was printed in a Dutch newspaper, “Trau”, on March 31, 1977 from an interview with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein who stated, “The Palestinian People does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.”

See Arab-Israeli Parliament member Azmi Bashara on national t.v. (before fleeing Israel after being caught spying for Hezbolla in 2006). https://galileemountainpeakpost.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/arab-israeli-m-p-there-is-no-palestinian-nation/

For map depicting Palestine before the British gave 3/4 of it to create Jordan back in the 1920’s: http://www.oocities.org/truthharbourers/1947partexplained.htm