We have all been had!
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Posted: March 22, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Sharon Nader Sloan
Did you know that there was never any country called Palestine? Did
you know that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people?
The ideas that the West Bank and Gaza are occupied Palestinian land,
and that the Palestinian people are fighting for their land, have
been accepted by most of the governments of the world and by most of
the media in the world. But if you read on, you will see that these
two claims are the biggest lies ever deliberately perpetrated on
humanity.
Check out any map of the Middle East and see for yourself. You will
find Palestine listed as a region as it always has been, but
definitely not a country. We can locate the Mojave Desert on the
map, but we still do not recognize it as our 51st state, let alone a
country. Similarly, the region of Siberia is a region not a state.
Or the Sahara is a region not a state, etc. Neither is Palestine a
state. It never was a country, just a region.
Importantly, the Jews did not displace anyone, because no one
permanently resided there. It was a land inhabited by nomadic,
Bedouin tribes. The whole region was nothing but deserts and swamps.
Only about 120,000 Arabs resided in an area that covered the
territories, the state of Israel and Jordan. When Mark Twain visited
the area, he wrote he found nothing but a wasteland.
During the 19 years that the territories including Jerusalem and
Gaza were occupied by the kingdoms of Jordan and Egypt, no one
talked about a Palestinian state
not the Arab countries, not the
United Nations. Nobody asked Jordan or Egypt to abdicate their
ownership and give it to the Palestinians. Not even the Palestinians
themselves said anything about a Palestinian state or a Palestinian
people, because nobody heard of a Palestinian people. It never
existed.
The fact simply is that there are no Palestinians. These people are
Arabs like all other Arabs, and they happen to live in a region
called Palestine. They are not a separate people.
What makes a separate people? Religion, language, culture, garb,
cuisine, etc. The Arabs in Palestine speak the same language,
practice the same religion, have the same culture, etc., as all the
other Arabs. The few minor differences that exist between them are
like the minor differences that exist between the Welsh, the Scots,
and the Londoners. They are still all Britons. Yankees and
Southerners have the same minor differences, but they are still all
Americans. People in the south of France are quite different from
the people in the north, but they are still all French. These
inconsequential differences do not make a people.
The Arabs living in Syria or Jordan, etc., are also the same Arabs,
but they are each a separate nation because they each have a
separate country. The so-called Palestinians want a separate country
because they claim to be a separate nation. They are not. They were
never a separate people before the new state of Israel. How did they
become one now?
Because of these lies, the so-called Palestinians feel justified in
sending suicide bombers to kill women, children, babies, old men,
old women and noncombatant citizens. Because of these lies, the
United Nations and the media of the world are condemning Israel who
is acting less harshly than any other country would act in
retaliation for such heinous attacks. What is the United States
doing in Afghanistan, a totally foreign country? Killing
Afghanistanis. Why? Because they attacked us on Sept. 11. I
understand this. But why do they not understand that that is exactly
what Israel is doing, only on a much smaller scale?
Ask yourself this: Should the use of terror ever be rewarded? When
is the use of terrorism justified as a military tactic? As a
political tactic? As an economic tactic? What implications does this
hold for future conflicts?
Let us examine the truths here:
1) There never was a Palestinian state or a Palestinian nation.
There are no Palestinian people, per se. Rather, these are Arabs
living in a region that historically has been called many things,
including Palestine.
2) Israel did not go to war against a Palestinian state and occupy
its land. Rather, Israel was attacked by six Arab countries at once.
She defended herself, defeated her attackers, and won the so-called
territories, not from the Palestinians, but from Jordan and Egypt.
3) Jerusalem was never the capital of any state but Israel. It was
certainly never the capital of a country that never existed. Why
should the Palestinians get any part of it? Because they want it?
Because they have terrorists?
4) Jerusalem, under the current Israeli control, is a free and open
city. Israel, as a democracy, guarantees freedom of religion within
its borders. Contrast this fact with areas that have come under
