03/18/2024
The Invention of the Palestinians
Contrary to popular belief, the 1947 UN Partition Plan did not envisage the establishment of an independent Jewish state and an independent "Palestinian" state in British Mandate Palestine. By our guest author Emrah Erken.
Rather, the partition plan, which was accepted exclusively by the Jewish side and as a result of which Israel was founded, provided for the creation of an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab state. This differentiation is very important because, up to that point, only the Jews had called themselves "Palestinians." The well-known newspaper "Jerusalem Post", for example, was still called "The Palestine Post" at that time. The renaming was not to take place until 1950.
The British also referred to the Arabs as "Palestinians" and even produced corresponding identity papers for them. Nevertheless, there was no national identity at that time. The Arabs, who rejected the partition plan, therefore refused to call themselves "Palestinians." They did not want to adopt this term, which had previously been used by the Jews, under any circumstances. At that time, they did not perceive themselves as a people.
It was not until 1964, 17 years after this partition plan, that this situation changed, when the terrorist organization PLO wrote its first charter. For the first time, there was talk of a "people" of the so-called "Palestinians", a people of whom the world had never heard before. The expression was intended to give the impression that the "Palestinians" were already there before, which is not true.
Robert Kennedy, the brother of the future American President JFK, visited the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 at the age of 22. He wrote the following lines to his father: "The Jews proudly point to the fact that in the 12 years between 1932 and 1944, over 500,000 Arabs came to Palestine to take advantage of living conditions that do not exist in any other Arab state. This is the only country in the Middle East where there is an Arab middle class." According to the last census conducted by the British in 1945, there were 1.2 million Arabs living in the entire Mandate of Palestine. In just 12 years, namely between 1932 and 1944, 500,000 had immigrated from surrounding Arab areas. That's almost half, and that's without taking into account the Arab immigration that took place before!
Thus, it can be said that today's "Palestinian" hereditary refugees are to a considerable extent descended from these Arabs from surrounding states and immigrated because the place, which later became Israel, was so economically successful, and this exclusively because of the Jews. The invention of an Arab "people", the so-called "Palestinians", thus served only to delegitimize Israel.
Of particular interest is what the first PLO Charter of 1964 defined as the territory of this "Palestinian state." This is the territory of the State of Israel.
It is important to note that the West Bank, actually Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip – exactly what the proponents of the two-state solution believe should be "Palestine" – are explicitly excluded as Palestinian territory.
Article 24 states:
"This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area." (This organization does not exercise territorial sovereignty rights in the West Bank within the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah area.)
The reason why the PLO terrorists have only the territory of Israel for themselves and explicitly did not want the "West Bank" and Gaza has to do with the fact that the former territory was occupied by Jordan and Gaza by the Egyptians.
Jordan, which illegally occupied the "West Bank" between 1948 and 1967, had expelled the local Jewish population of around 40,000 people.
The Six-Day War in 1967 was to change this situation. The Arabs lost the war they themselves had instigated. This also had an impact on the PLO Charter. The text of 1964 could no longer be valid. Thus, in the PLO Charter, which was adopted in 1968, the aforementioned Article 24 no longer appears. It's only logical, isn't it?
To sum up, it can be said that the entire national consciousness of the "Palestinians" is directed towards the destruction of Israel. If Israel did not exist, the "Palestinians" would never have been invented. The area would belong to Syrians, Jordanians and Egyptians, and the "Palestinians" would be nationals of these countries, many of whom were descendants, such as the Egyptian terrorist Arafat, who was born in Cairo.
Proponents of the two-state solution believe that it would create peace. It also includes the hope that the "Palestinians" would give peace as soon as they had their own state. There is no reason, because both Hamas and the PLO continue to aim at the destruction of Israel.
