The Big Lie of "Palestine"

That's right. There's no "Palestine", at least not as we've been told by the mainstream media, the Left and the Islamists.

The Palestinians claim that they are an ancient and indigenous people fails to stand up to historical 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.’

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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.

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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 20^th 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 18^th-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.

Well, read it all for yourself.

Just some quick musings now:

You know, if one can claim that the Arab Muslims in the area sometimes referred to as "Palestine" are an "indigenous people", then one can also claim that "Canadians" are an indigenous people in Canada. The implication of this is the acceptance that there are no "First Nations", but rather one nation of "Canadians". Try to think about that. Hmmm... imagine that... me, an "indigenous" Canadian. Just because I was born here. But we have an ethnic group called "First Nations" who claim racial "first-here-ness" and who claim special preferences and exclusive rights and entitlements based on their being of that ethnic group. Is this right, to be so divisive on the basis of ethnicity? If it's to be deemed to be right, then one logically will also have to deem the Israeli Jews to have a stronger claim to "Palestine" than the alleged "Palestinian" Arab-Muslims do. But do we want to go there in either "Canada" or "Palestine"? Hmm... wouldn't it just be better if we accepted one nation, one people, rather than using ethnicity to determine rights and so on? Of course, that one nation would have to be Israel, for "Palestine" was actually originally Israel... And it's ok for it to still be a Jewish state. Better a tolerant, progressive, fair Jewish state than an intolerant, regressive, unfair Islamic fascist one, such as we've seen under the so-called "Palestinian Authority" (a terrorist organization in reality, not a government)...