An Invented People?

Question

Some conservatives, most notably Elliot Abrams, have criticized Newt Gingrich​’s observation that the Palestinians are an invented people by saying that even if they are — (and there is no real question but that they are) — they’ve been around long enough (50 years, or since the creation of the PLO in 1964) so that we need to deal with that fact — not. What makes anyone think this a people even today.

But the evidence is that Palestinians are a political fiction for a movement whose organizing desire is the destruction of the Jewish state and expulsion of the Jews is far stronger than this small incident. In 1948, 80% of the so-called “Palestine Mandate” had been given to the Hashemite minority in control of Jordan. The Jews were given half of the remaining 20% and the Arabs the other half. A nationalist movement would surely have accepted the partition and then laid claim to the 80% controlled by the Hashemites in Jordan. No such thing happened. Instead the Arab states including Jordan attacked the Jewish state with the intention of destroying it.

Answer 1

Palestine was never a state.

Answer 2

What you all said.

Answer 3

There's no such thing as "Palestine"
"Palestine" is the name that the Romans gave to the land of Israel when they conquered this land 2000 years ago and Wikipedia explains (Israel) :
It was during this time that the Romans gave the name Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. The Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were composed in the region during this period. The Muslims conquered the land from the Byzantine Empire in 638 CE. The area was ruled by various Muslim states (interrupted by the rule of the Crusaders) before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517.
And also the Greeks prior to the Romans:

Abba Eban wrote in his book 'My nation - The history of the nation of Israel' in page 64 that the Greek historian Herodotos used the name 'Palestina', that is 'Pleshet', for the first time as a complete name for all the land of Israel while in the past it referred only to the populated areas of the Philistines themselves.

Abba Eban added that the Philistines, who settled down in the shore area, were the first ones with whom the Greek invaders encountered thus the Greeks called all the land in the name of the Philistines.

There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian"...

There's no such thing as "Palestine"
"Palestine" is the name that the Romans gave to the land of Israel when they conquered this land 2000 years ago and Wikipedia explains (Israel) :
It was during this time that the Romans gave the name Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. The Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were composed in the region during this period. The Muslims conquered the land from the Byzantine Empire in 638 CE. The area was ruled by various Muslim states (interrupted by the rule of the Crusaders) before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517.
And also the Greeks prior to the Romans:

Abba Eban wrote in his book 'My nation - The history of the nation of Israel' in page 64 that the Greek historian Herodotos used the name 'Palestina', that is 'Pleshet', for the first time as a complete name for all the land of Israel while in the past it referred only to the populated areas of the Philistines themselves.

Abba Eban added that the Philistines, who settled down in the shore area, were the first ones with whom the Greek invaders encountered thus the Greeks called all the land in the name of the Philistines.

There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" nation.

There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" state.

There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" kingdom.

There were never in the history of the world "Palestinian" kings.

There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" capital.

There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" essence.

There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" heritage.

There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" culture.

The "Palestinians" are ARABS who were brought to the region by the Ottoman empire as part of the Muslim occupation in the region and later on also by the British who entered masses of Arabs from the surroundings while closing Israel to its genuine owners. Arabs from countries like Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen emigrated to Israel in the beginning of the 20th century to look for employment (due to the development of this land by the Judean inhabitants) while pretending to be living in Israel "for thousands of years..." These Arabs are definitely not the tribes from Crete who settled down in the 5 cities of Gaza strip after the Exodus of Israel from Egypt. These tribes were called Philistines and they weren't Arabs at all and the nowadays "Palestinians" are definitely not their descendants. The Philistines don't exist as a nation nowadays.

There's no "Palestinian" nation but an ARAB one which went out of the Arabian Peninsula and occupied dozens of lands, including the land of Israel.

According to the Israeli Wikipedia the Arabs who were living in the land of Israel started to call themselves "Palestinians" only after the establishment of Israel in 1948 and prior to it they called themselves just 'Arabs' and this is how they called their organizations ('Arab Higher Committee') and their struggles ('The Great Arab Revolt') and nicknamed the land of Israel in different names such as 'Southern Syria'.

Zuheir Mohsen is widely known for having made the following statement in a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw:
"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.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
There was an Israeli state in the land of Israel 2000 years before the prophet of Islam dreamt that he's flying on a "magical horse" from Mecca to Jerusalem.

There was an Israeli nation in the land of Israel.

There was an Israeli kingdom in the land of Israel.

There were Israeli kings in the Israeli kingdom of Israel.

There was an Israeli capital in the kingdom of Israel.

There was and there is an Israeli essence.

There was and there is an Israeli heritage.

There was and there is an Israeli culture.

Israel isn't just a name of a state. It's first and for all a name of a nation (Am Yisrael). Israel is the name of the father of the nation (Jacob) and Israelis are his descendants. The real meaning of the word 'Israeli' is someone who belongs to the nation of Israel and not only "a citizen of a state called Israel". The word 'Israeli' (Yisraeli) is mentioned in the Torah and we use it in Hebrew till this day. Yisraelim in plural.

Don't say "Jews", say Judeans. Yehudi in Hebrew is Judean in English, not "Jew". "Jews" is a mockery word for Judeans. The word 'Judeans' was invented by gentiles. When the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans conquered the land of Israel they called all the Israelis in the name 'Judeans' because at those days the tribe of Judah was the biggest and the dominant tribe which survived the exile of ******* in which 10 tribes of Israel were exiled. The tribe of Judah lived in the Judean desert thus the gentiles who occupied the land of Israel called the members of this tribe (and also the ones of Benjamin and Levi who joined it) in the name 'Judeans'.

When Israelis (Judeans) who live abroad go to synagogue they don't read about Judeans and not about "Jews" in the prayer books nor in the Torah but about 'The Nation of Israel', 'The ******** of Israel', 'The House of Israel', 'Israeli', 'Shema Yisra

Answer 4

Palestine was never a state.

Answer 5

The historical truth that there never was a state of Palestine - the Middle East Truth that Must Not Be Named - was immediately and resoundingly condemned by Arab Palestinian leaders. Saeb Erekat, a longtime spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority called the comments “despicable,” and Hanan Ashrawi, another long-time Arab Palestinian leader called his statements “very racist” and said they reveal that Gingrich is “incapable of holding office.” Both Erekat and Ashrawi were colleagues and cronies of the prince of prevarication, Yassir Arafat. Not surprisingly, the faux pro-Israel organization J Street has also condemned the statements of fact as "ill-informed, irresponsible and frightening," thereby once again displaying its willingness to bend the truth to suit their own political (i.e. pro-Arab Palestinian) agenda and fundraising scare tactics.

“It is rare that political races offer an opportunity for huge numbers of citizens to learn historical truths, and for popular but wildly untrue myths to be put to rest,” said Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Z STREET president. “While the conflict in the Middle East is often a campaign topic, rarely has a presidential candidate been responsible for uttering a simple historical fact and thereby upending a house of cards historical inventi...

The historical truth that there never was a state of Palestine - the Middle East Truth that Must Not Be Named - was immediately and resoundingly condemned by Arab Palestinian leaders. Saeb Erekat, a longtime spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority called the comments “despicable,” and Hanan Ashrawi, another long-time Arab Palestinian leader called his statements “very racist” and said they reveal that Gingrich is “incapable of holding office.” Both Erekat and Ashrawi were colleagues and cronies of the prince of prevarication, Yassir Arafat. Not surprisingly, the faux pro-Israel organization J Street has also condemned the statements of fact as "ill-informed, irresponsible and frightening," thereby once again displaying its willingness to bend the truth to suit their own political (i.e. pro-Arab Palestinian) agenda and fundraising scare tactics.

“It is rare that political races offer an opportunity for huge numbers of citizens to learn historical truths, and for popular but wildly untrue myths to be put to rest,” said Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Z STREET president. “While the conflict in the Middle East is often a campaign topic, rarely has a presidential candidate been responsible for uttering a simple historical fact and thereby upending a house of cards historical invention.”

Z STREET hopes that everyone who knows the truth about the Middle East will join in and help eradicate the long-held and dangerous myth that has cast Israel as an entity that stole a state from a people when, in fact, there never was that state nor was there such a people.

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