Congress Demands State Department Release Secret Report Busting Myth of “Palestinian Refugees”

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Why won’t  the Arabist State Department release the report? Because “Palestinianism” is a myth, a big lie — a marketing term to sell this century’s Jewish genocide.

Check out the U.S .Congress in 1922.

Myths and Facts:

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The Palestinians claim that they are an ancient and indigenous people fails to stand up to historic scrutiny. Most Palestinian Arabs were newcomers to British Mandate Palestine. Until the 1967 Six-Day War made it expedient for Arabs to create a Palestinian peoplehood, local Arabs simply considered themselves part of the ‘great Arab nation’ or ‘southern Syrians.’

“Repeat a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it.” Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels

“All [that Palestinians] can agree on as a community is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build.”
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman

There is no age-old Palestinian people. Most so-called Palestinians are relative newcomers to the Land of Israel

Like a mantra, Arabs repeatedly claim that the Palestinians are a native people. The concept of a “Stateless Palestinian people” is not based on fact. It is a fabrication.

Palestinian Arabs cast themselves as a native people in “Palestine” – like the Aborigines in Australia or Native Americans in America. They portray the Jews as European imperialists and colonizers. This is simply untrue.

Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel in increasing numbers from the late 19th century to the turn of the 20th, the area called Palestine was a God-forsaken backwash that belonged to the Ottoman Empire, based in Turkey.

The land’s fragile ecology had been laid waste in the wake of the Arabs’ 7th-century conquest. In 1799, the population was at it lowest and estimated to be no more than 250,000 to 300,000 inhabitants in all the land.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Arab population west of the Jordan River (today, Israel and the West Bank) was about half a million inhabitants and east of the Jordan River perhaps 200,000.

The collapse of the agricultural system with the influx of nomadic tribes after the Arab conquest that created malarial swamps and denuded the ancient terrace system eroding the soil, was coupled by a tyrannous regime, a crippling tax system and absentee landowners that further decimated the population. Much of the indigenous population had long since migrated or disappeared. Very few Jews or Arabs lived in the region before the arrival of the first Zionists in the 1880s and most of those that did lived in abject poverty.

Most Arabs living west of the Jordan River in Israel, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza are newcomers who came from surrounding Arab lands after the turn of the 20th century because they were attracted to the relative economic prosperity brought about by the Zionist Movement and the British in the 1920s and 1930s.

This is substantiated by eyewitness reports of a deserted country – including 18th-century reports from the British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, French author and historian Count Constantine Volney (Travels through Syria and Egypt, 1798); the mid-19th-century writings of Alphonse de Lamartine (Recollections of the East, 1835); Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad, 1867); and reports from the British Consul in Jerusalem (1857) that were sent back to London.

The Ottoman Turks’ census (1882) recorded only 141,000 Muslims in the Land of Israel. The real number is probably closer to 350,000 to 425,000, since many hid to avoid taxes. The British census in 1922 reported 650,000 Muslims.

Aerial photographs taken by German aviators during World War I show an underdeveloped country composed mainly of primitive hamlets. Ashdod, for instance, was a cluster of mud dwellings, Haifa a fishing village. In 1934 alone, 30,000 Syrian Arabs from the Hauran moved across the northern frontier into Mandate Palestine, attracted by work in and around the newly built British port and the construction of other infrastructure projects. They even dubbed Haifa Um el-Amal (‘the city of work’).

The fallacy of Arab claims that most Palestinians were indigenous to Palestine – not newcomers – is also bolstered by a 1909 vintage photograph of Nablus, today an Arab city on the West Bank with over 121,000 residents. Based on the number of buildings in the photo taken from the base of Mount Gerizim, the population in 1909 – Muslim Arabs and Jewish Samaritans – could not have been greater than 2,000 residents.

Family names of many Palestinians attest to their non-Palestinian origins. Just as Jews bear names like Berliner, Warsaw and Toledano, modern phone books in the Territories are filled with families named Elmisri (Egyptian), Chalabi (Syrian), Mugrabi (North Africa). Even George Habash – the arch-terrorist and head of Black September – bears a name with origins in Abyssinia or Ethiopia, Habash in both Arabic and Hebrew.


Palestinian nationality is an entity defined by its opposition to Zionism, and not its national aspirations.

What unites Palestinians has been their opposition to Jewish nationalism and the desire to stamp it out, not aspirations for their own state. Local patriotic feelings are generated only when a non-Islamic entity takes charge – such as Israel did after the 1967 Six-Day War. It dissipates under Arab rule, no matter how distant or despotic.

A Palestinian identity did not exist until an opposing force created it – primarily anti-Zionism. Opposition to a non-Muslim nationalism on what local Arabs, and the entire Arab world, view as their own turf, was the only expression of ‘Palestinian peoplehood.’

The Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a charismatic religious leader and radical anti-Zionist was the moving force behind opposition to Jewish immigration in the 1920s and 1930s. The two-pronged approach of the “Diplomacy of Rejection” (of Zionism) and the violence the Mufti incited occurred at the same time Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq became countries in the post-Ottoman reshuffling of territories established by the British and the French under the League of Nation’s mandate system.

The tiny educated class among the Arabs of Palestine was more politically aware than the rest of Arab society, with the inklings of a separate national identity. However, for decades, the primary frame of reference for most local Arabs was the clan or tribe, religion and sect, and village of origin. If Arabs in Palestine defined themselves politically, it was as “southern Syrians.” Under Ottoman rule, Syria referred to a region much larger than the Syrian Arab Republic of today, with borders established by France and England in 1920.

In his book Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, Daniel Pipes explains:

“Syria was a region that stretched from the borders of Anatolia to those of Egypt, from the edge of Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of today’s states, the Syria of old comprised Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, plus the Gaza Strip and Alexandria.”

Syrian maps in the 21st century still co-opt most of Greater Syria, including Israel.

The Grand Mufti Al-Husseini’s aspirations slowly shifted from pan-Arabism – the dream of uniting all Arabs into one polity, whereby Arabs in Palestine would unite with their brethren in Syria – to winning a separate Palestinian entity, with himself at the helm. Al-Husseini was the moving force behind the 1929 riots against the Jews and the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt against two non-Muslim entities in Palestine – the British and the Jews. He gathered a large following by playing on fears that the Jews had come to dispossess, or at least dominate the Arabs.

Much like Yasser Arafat, the Grand Mufti’s ingrained all-or-nothing extremism, fanaticism and even an inability to cooperate with his own compatriots made him totally ineffective. He led the Palestinian Arabs nowhere.

The ‘Palestinian’ cause became a key rallying point for Arab nationalism throughout the Middle East, according to Oxford historian Avi Shlaim. The countries the British and French created in 1918-1922 were based largely on meridians on the map, as is evident in the borders that delineate the Arab states today. Because these states lack ethnic logic or a sense of community, their opposition to the national aspirations of the Jews has come to fuel that fires Arab nationalism as the ‘glue’ of national identity. (see details on the ramifications of British and French policy, which plague the Middle East to this day in the chapter “The European Union.”)

From the 1920s, rejection of Jewish nationalism, attempts to prevent the establishment of a Jewish homeland by violence, and rejection of any form of Jewish political power, including any plans to share stewardship with Arabs, crystallized into the expression of Palestinianism. No other positive definition of an Arab-Palestinian people has surfaced. This point is admirably illustrated in the following historic incident:

“In 1926, Lord Plumer was appointed as the second High Commissioner of Palestine. The Arabs within the Mandate were infuriated when Plumer stood up for the Zionists’ national anthem Hatikva during ceremonies held in his honor when Plumer first visited Tel Aviv. When a delegation of Palestinian Arabs protested Plumer’s ‘Zionist bias,’ the High Commissioner asked the Arabs if he remained seated when their national anthem was played, ‘wouldn’t you regard my behavior as most unmannerly?’ Met by silence, Plumer asked: ‘By the way, have you got a national anthem?’ When the delegation replied with chagrin that they did not, he snapped back, “I think you had better get one as soon as possible.”

But it took the Palestinians more than 60 years to heed Plumer’s advice, adopting Anthem of the Intifada two decades after Israel took over the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 – at the beginning of the 1987 Intifada.

Under the Mandate, local Arabs also refused to establish an ‘Arab Agency’ to develop the Arab sector, parallel to the Jewish Agency that directed development of the Jewish sector (see the Chapter “Rejectionism”).

In fact, the so-called patriotism of indigenous Muslims has flourished only when non-Muslim entities (the Crusaders, the British, the Jews) have taken charge of the Holy Land. When political control returns to Muslim hands, the ardent patriotism of the Arabs of Palestine magically wanes, no matter how distant or how despotic the government. One Turkish pasha who ruled Acco (Acre) between 1775 and 1804 was labeled Al Jazzar, The Butcher, by locals.

Why hasn’t Arab representative government ever been established in Palestine, either in 1948 or during the next 19 years of Arab rule? Because other Arabs co-opted the Palestinian cause as a rallying point that would advance the concept that the territory was up for grabs. “The Arab invasion of Palestine was not a means for achieving an independent Palestine, but rather the result of a lack of consensus on the part of the Arab states regarding such independence,” summed up one historian. Adherents to a separate Palestinian identity were a mute minority on the West Bank and Gaza during the 19 years of Jordanian and Egyptian rule – until Israel took control from the Jordanians and the Egyptians in 1967. Suddenly a separate Palestinian peoplehood appeared and claimed it deserved nationhood – and 21 other Arab states went along with it.

Palestinianism in and of itself lacks any substance of its own. Arab society on the West Bank and Gaza suffers from deep social cleavages created by a host of rivalries based on divergent geographic, historical, geographical, sociological and familial allegiances. What glues Palestinians together is a carefully nurtured hatred of Israel and the rejection of Jewish nationhood.

Congress Demands State Department Release Secret Report Busting Myth of Palestinian Refugees

Free Beacon,  July 13, 2018:

Key lawmakers in Congress are increasing pressure on the Trump administration to release a long classified government report on Palestinian refugees that insiders have described as a potential game changer in how the United States views the refugee issue and allocates millions in taxpayer funding for a major United Nations agency, according to conversations with senior congressional officials working on the matter.

The State Department has, since the Obama administration was in office, been hiding a key report believed to expose the number of Palestinian refugees as far smaller than the U.N. and other have claimed for decades. The public release of this information could alter how the United States provides funding for Palestinian refugees.

The Washington Free Beacon first disclosed the existence of the refugee report in January, when the Trump administration decided to significantly cut funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, an organization long accused of harboring anti-Israel bias and of aiding Hamas terrorists in the Palestinian territories.

Though the State Department is legally required to publish an unclassified version of the report, it has repeatedly ignored demands by Congress that the report be released.

“The State Department is committed to taking all appropriate measures to provide information in response to requests from Congress,” a State Department official said.

Rep. Doug Lamborn (R., Colo.) spearheaded the initial effort to declassify the report. Congress must have a complete picture of the Palestinian refugee situation in order to ensure that U.S. taxpayer funds are not being wasted, he told the Free Beacon in April.

“It is critical that Congress investigates the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which operates under the United Nations (UN) using a different definition of a refugee for Palestinians than all other UN refugees around the world,” Lamborn said.

Congressional demands that the report be publicly released come at time of mounting criticism for UNRWA, which is facing a severe cash crunch following the Trump administration’s decision to reduce U.S. funding. The tense situation with UNRWA has sparked protests in the Gaza Strip, where UNRWA mainly operates and employs hundreds.

 

In addition to regional protests over UNRWA’s inability to pay salaries, Turkey was recently appointed at the U.N. to chair the agency’s advisory committee for the next year. This has stoked concerns that UNRWA could take an even more anti-Israel position in the coming months.

Sources with direct knowledge of the report’s contents have told the Free Beacon it puts the number of actual Palestinian refugees at around 20,000, far fewer than the 5.3 million figure routinely pushed by UNRWA and pro-Palestinian advocates who want to see the United States and international partners continue sending millions in aid to the Palestinian government.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), one of the main lawmakers pressuring the Trump administration to release the report, told the Free Beacon that efforts to suppress the information on the actual Palestinian refugees is preventing Congress from providing oversight for the U.S. taxpayer.

“UNRWA lashes out against America and engages in anti-Semitic incitement. Hamas terrorists use UNRWA facilities to target Israeli civilians,” Cruz told the Free Beacon. “The American people deserve to see this reported State Department assessment, so Congress and the administration can have a transparent and productive debate about America’s role in the organization.”

Now that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is running the State Department following the ouster of former head Rex Tillerson, lawmakers and senior congressional officials see a renewed opportunity to ensure the refugee report is released.

They continue to view the classified report’s findings as a critical tipping point in the debate over UNRWA’s funding and core mission, which has found itself subjected to increased scrutiny as a result of what many allege is UNRWA’s anti-Israel bias and close relationship with Palestinian terror groups.

One senior congressional official who has been involved in the UNRWA issue for several years questioned why the Trump administration is continuing to keep the report classified, particularly as the White House amps up efforts to foster peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. The refugee issue has long been a sticking point in peace talks.

“It’s not really a question of what they’re hiding,” said the source, who was not authorized to speak on the record about the situation. “We know what’s in the report because it’s just a matter of mathematics and demographics. The number of refugees was half a million people to begin with, and that was 70 years ago so many of them have passed away, so it can’t be five million now.”

“The question is why the Trump administration is trying to lock in the Obama era policy of never letting this report see the light of day,” the source said.

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Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

The State Department is awash with recycled Obama acolytes. It, no matter what Congress demands, will elude the truth regarding the Palestinian dog and pony show. Leftists have permeated the inner sanctum of numerous government agencies; it is no surprise, as treason is the leftist’/Democrats’ malignant machination to the Republic’s ruination. One must not overlook the Democrat’s alliance with the Cult, Islam.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Agree. Trump was conned by Abbas initially but when he found out the truth boy was he mad as hell at the jihadi http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ

That’s when he decided enough is enough and that inspite of huge opposition led to shifting of Embassy to Jerusalem and No more funding to the jihadis.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Still, it should be RELEASED!

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

While I don’t disagree with you, it is wrong to blame the State Department’s love of Islam on Obama. Arabists in the State Department have been present for decades throughout both Dem and Repub administrations. John Foster Dulles was a Republican Arabist, as is the Arab lover, James Baker. Oil man Rex Tillerson was also a fan of the Arabs, which is ironic since the UAE is said to have led the effort to get Trump to fire him since they were concerned he was weak on Iran. There are some older Repubs outside the State Department who love the Arab world like Pat Buchanan who throughout the 80’s and 90’s was always screaming about not upsetting the “Arab street.” You also have the Ron Paul types who are quite sympathetic toward Arabs. The Arabs throw their wealth around to bribe and buy politicians across the political spectrum.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

You are right, caliroxanne. That said, Obama has a grand alliance with Islamism and continues to do so. I am not debating your post, as you are 100% right. Our politicos historically in the past to present day who dolt upon the Islamic Arabic worldview. Yes, numerous Republicans were and remain part of the betrayal. Lol… I almost swallowed my Camel cigarette reading the names of those mentioned… Republicans for whom I never held any trust. Sadly, there are many others I hold in disdain.

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Well of course Obama has a grand alliance with the Islam (I don’t like to use the word ‘Islamism’) and the Muslim world because he is a Muslim!!!

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

Yep, and his flock of disciples love it; even to this day.

TD
TD
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

“..it is wrong to blame the State Department’s love of Islam on Obama.”
You mean, Obama alone.

However, Professor Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat, sees the shift where Democrats are increasingly being pro-Palestinian and tolerant of antisemitism; and republicans are increasingly more Pro-Israel and Pro-Jewish bec. the Evangelical movement and Trump are leading them there.

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  TD

You are correct and there is no disagreement about Republicans being far more pro-Israel than the Dems, but my point was not about Democrats being Jew haters (as I know they are) but about the State Department specifically. The State Department seems to attract Jew haters from both political parties such as Republicans Dulles and James Baker.

Laurence Jarvik
Laurence Jarvik
5 years ago

Couldn’t Pres. Trump order them to release the report? Who’s in charge, exactly?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
5 years ago

What calls itself “palestinians” is merely a street gang that has managed to play the fat boys of the world into paying protection. A few riots and they get liberal socialists wetting their pants in haste to appease a group that would be better off arrested.

Kalambong Kalambong
Kalambong Kalambong
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

They are the scumbags other Arab scumbags do not want.

In other words, the ‘palestinians’ are scumbags of scumbags

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Western countries owe them nothing. Let MUSLIM countries PAY for them and take them in.
Oops! They don’t want them either. They are NOT our problem.

antimulticulturalism
antimulticulturalism
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

yes, these terrorists are ruling areas of the former “canada” as well and gleefully beat, spew threats/death threats upon peaceful pro freedom canadians and Jews and NO POLICE, POLITICIAN OR COURT DOES A THING TO STOP IT WHILE MOHAMMAD TRUDEAU AND HIS TERRORIST GOVERNMENT ENDORSE IT AND ALLOW THESE TERRORISTS TO SHUT DOWN CITY ROADS, CITY HALLS , OCCUPY GOVERNMENT LEGISLATIVE BUILDINGS ETC TO SPEW THEIR HATE AND DEATH THREATS AGAINST JEWS ALL OVER THE GLOBE AS WELL AS HERE IN THE FORMER CANADA, NOW THE NEW BORDER-LESS. LEADERLESS, LAWLESS THIRD WORLD TERRORIST CALIPHATE!!

Dennis
Dennis
5 years ago

Assuming that the opening comments to this article are reasonably accurate, I am impressed with how it outlines and supports the proposition that accusing the Israelites as “occupiers” is false and unmeritorious to the so-called “nth” degree. Though I believe that the numbers in the commentary that follows probably does not count the issue of the original Arab people who lived in the region, the bottom line does appear to support the conclusions that any support of these people should be born by the Arab world and not the American taxpayers. The facts establish that the leaders of the Gazan and West Bank people are simply anti-Semitic, justifying their hate and promotion of destruction on their so-called religious beliefs, beliefs that are clearly satanic and without any religious substance. Great article!!!

Dennis
Dennis
5 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

I do appreciate your reply commentary. Nevertheless, whether you are accurate in your historical conclusions, I still remain convinced that these people, no matter their heritage, simply cannot and will not ever accept any peaceful resolution of the conflicting claims that cause such havoc in that area of the world. Their claim that Israel is an occupying state is ludicrous, and they and the Arab world refuse to live in harmony and benefit from the great industrial power that Israel has become. Therefore, my animus towards these people. I can understand that a need may exist to provide safety and reasonable sustenance to these Arab speaking people, but I do not believe that their leadership, which pursues violence, should be supported by U.S. taxpayer funded aid. The rest of the middle east world should carry that burden.

mudpuppy
mudpuppy
5 years ago

they were the despised nomads, or gypsy people. Jerusalem goes back to the time of David and Solomon. All the Muslims want to do is destroy artifacts. Are they the only ideology that hates history and doesn’t want to explore the past.

Commieobamie
Commieobamie
5 years ago
Reply to  mudpuppy

Yes, they abhor the past because their fairy moon god Satan wants everything pointing to him, hence moHOGmad.

Kevin Cowlishaw
Kevin Cowlishaw
5 years ago

Republican Congress is a mouse that roars, it has a majority but still can’t do diddly squat.

Tilt
Tilt
5 years ago

Since the Great Trump is POTUS, I am 100% sure that the question is not if to release this report, but when to release it!

I suspect that once the current peace initiative (a serious attempt in and of itself but one only for protocol, as in “we did our best but now that it failed, we are going to try a different approach…”) led by Kushner is exhausted (due to total and automatic refusal by the “Palestinians”), Trump will start shooting (metaphorically) the “Palestinian” statehood boat

One of the shots aimed at sinking the current “Palestinian” paradigm (weakening Israel under the guise of “genuine” aspirations for a “Just”, two state solution), will no doubtfully be these State Department revelations, other shots might be US sanctions against the “Palestinian” Authority (DC presence, Palestinian leadership restrictions, financial scrutiny) in a bid to force them to stop their support for “retired” (out of Israeli jails) terrorists and terrorist families (dead / wounded or still imprisoned terrorists), pressuring Jordan (with the help of Saudi Arabia / UAE / Egypt) to establish a confederacy with the “Palestinians” in Judea & Samara etc

Another consideration of releasing this bombshell is the timing of the current “Palestinian” leadership (Mahmud Abbas is in very bad health condition) removal / stepping down and not wanting to be seen as contributing to his demise / looming instability in PA controlled territories

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Tilt

I hope you are right!

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
5 years ago

The only reason the so called Palestinians can do that is because the Western countries hate Israel and thus believe the myth of an ancient so called Palestinians. There is no such place as Palestine or a people such as Palestinians. Jews were exiled from the land 2000 years ago but there was always a Jewish community in the land of Israel, even thought it was a very small community it was continuous, and when Jews came back to their original home and re created their state the world did not wish to acknowledge that they had the right to do that and Israel has enemies who are ignorant and support the so called Palestinians.

Buck
Buck
5 years ago

GOD gave the land to Israel forever . And he said they would keep it. My blessing on the nation of Israel and its people.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

There is no Palestinian refusegees. They have ALWAYS been refusegees. Not even surrounding Arab countries want to take them. Nobody is MAD at them.

YET THEY ARE MAD as Israel for helping them.

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago

What about all the Jews expelled from the Muslim countries, nobody ever speaks about them? (Especially UNRWA that mainly exists to cosset the ‘palestinians’) The expelled JEWS are a forgotten people except among the Jews themselves of course who know the history

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago

I would love to hear that the Grand Muff Diver is queer.

jerrys
jerrys
5 years ago

http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeography/Archive/20100817-gh-examw.pdf

page 13
. . Wherever they went, the Moslems brought with them their love of art, beauty, and learning.
From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that
of western Christendom.
Some of the finest centers of Moslem life were established in Spain. In Cordova, the streets
were solidly paved, while at the same time in Paris people waded ankle-deep in mud after a rain.
Cordovan public lamps lighted roads for as far as ten miles; yet seven hundred years later there
was still not a single public lamp in London!
Some Spanish Moslems had homes with marble balconies and courts with lovely waterfalls.
Bedrooms were vaulted with stained glass and speckled with gold. And metal pipes carried water
into marble baths.
Nearly every mosque had a public school in which the children of the poor were taught. Many
Moslem libraries were excellent; the catalogue of one caliph’s library filled forty volumes. In
addition, the followers of Mohammed achieved much in science, particularly in chemistry,
astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. . . .
Source: Daniel Roselle, A World History: A Cultural Approach, Ginn and Company

Commieobamie
Commieobamie
5 years ago

Cut ALL Fakeastinian funding. ALL.

Fred Alexander
Fred Alexander
5 years ago

PALESTINIANS, A BRIEF HISTORY
The British Mandate.
When Israel was under the British Mandate and called the area “Palestine”, (despite the fact that there was no Palestinian national identity then, that group of people has only been invented recently,) Jews and Arab lived in Israel. The Palestine Post was a Jewish newspaper. The flag of then-Palestine featured a Jewish Star of David, and the sports teams were Jews. The real group of people who shared, if any, Palestinian identity were the Jews. It was only much later (following the 67 war) that Arabs in the area fabricated a ‘Palestinian national identity’.
The State of Israel
In any event, when Israel declared independence in 1947, it had certain borders. The War of Independence in 1948 changed that, and subsequent wars also changed the borders. Of course, since there never was a ruling Palestinian government in Judea and Samaria, when Israel won the Six Day War in 1967 and took over that territory from the Jordanians, it was by no means occupying it. That is because it was not occupying it from anyone. There never was a previous nation living under their own rule there.
Recall that the Palestinian national identity is a modern fabrication and that national identity did not exist before 1948. So at most, there would be a dispute as to who had control over the area, as Israel won it in a war with Jordan, and Jordan took it from the British, who were willing to divide up the land in the first place. So while it may be disputed territory, it is clearly not “occupied Palestinian land”, as there was no national Palestinian identity when Jordan ruled it, and there was never any previous Palestinian national government there from whom Israel had “occupied” it.

Fred Alexander
Fred Alexander
5 years ago

PALESTINIANS, A BRIEF HISTORY
The British Mandate.
When Israel was under the British Mandate and called the area “Palestine”, (despite the fact that there was no Palestinian national identity then, that group of people has only been invented recently,) Jews and Arab lived in Israel. The Palestine Post was a Jewish newspaper. The flag of then-Palestine featured a Jewish Star of David, and the sports teams were Jews. The real group of people who shared, if any, Palestinian identity were the Jews. It was only much later (following the 67 war) that Arabs in the area fabricated a ‘Palestinian national identity’.
The State of Israel
In any event, when Israel declared independence in 1947, it had certain borders. The War of Independence in 1948 changed that, and subsequent wars also changed the borders. Of course, since there never was a ruling Palestinian government in Judea and Samaria, when Israel won the Six Day War in 1967 and took over that territory from the Jordanians, it was by no means occupying it. That is because it was not occupying it from anyone. There never was a previous nation living under their own rule there.
Recall that the Palestinian national identity is a modern fabrication and that national identity did not exist before 1948. So at most, there would be a dispute as to who had control over the area, as Israel won it in a war with Jordan, and Jordan took it from the British, who were willing to divide up the land in the first place. So while it may be disputed territory, it is clearly not “occupied Palestinian land”, as there was no national Palestinian identity when Jordan ruled it, and there was never any previous Palestinian national government there from whom Israel had “occupied” it.

Isahiah62
Isahiah62
5 years ago

“The tense situation with UNRWA has sparked protests in the Gaza Strip,..”
Protests?? NO!!!! these are UNPROVOKED attacks on the border- wioth petrol bpombs, grenades, and arson sent by kites. and now ROCKETS!!!
not a protest…

antimulticulturalism
antimulticulturalism
5 years ago

Send a copy to the islamic state north of the 49th for the islamic/anti jew mohammad trudeau and his islamic anti Jew terrorist government to read as well!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Honestly, their problem, not ours, not now.

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