January 08, 2009

The Palestine that never was...

"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. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism."
- Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, 1977
Worth reposting. Read Joseph Farah's excellent article Palestinian People Do Not Exist

"Then We [Allah] said to the Israelites: 'Dwell in this land [the Land of Israel]. When the promise of the hereafter [End of Days] comes to be fulfilled, We [Allah] shall assemble you [the Israelites] all together [in the Land of Israel]."
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Qur'an, "Night Journey," chapter 17:100-104

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Worth reading:
" If you wonder how come the Israelis don’t know their history, the answer is pretty simple, they have never been told. The circumstances that led to the Israeli Palestinian conflict are well hidden within their culture. Traces of pre-1948 Palestinian civilisation on the land had been wiped out. Not only the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians, is not part of the Israeli curriculum, it is not even mentioned or discussed in any Israeli official or academic forum."

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14594

By Gilad Atzmon

"Gilad Atzmon was born a secular Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv. His service in the Israeli military convinced him Israel had become a militarized state controlled by religious extremists."