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| Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu |
"An acquaintance recently asked me when I would 'become more moderate.' He was referring to my 'aggressive' language and tone in treating what I regard as the unilateral surrender process into which MKs YosꞋi Beilin and Shim•onꞋ PërꞋës and prime minister Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ Rab•inꞋ dragged us five years ago…
"In its official Internet Web site, the ["Palestine" National Authority] PNA [later, PA] discusses UN Security Council Resolution 242 of 1967.11.22. It opens by saying that the resolution 'states that "East Jerusalem" is part of the "Palestinian" territories which fell under the Israeli occupation in 1967.'
"The text of 242 at which I am looking says no such thing. It never mentions Jerusalem, east or west.
"Apart from that, of course, the PNA is telling only a small part of the truth when it says, '…"Palestinian" territories which fell under Israeli occupation…'
"In 1967 there was no territory — a state or other — called "Palestine". The "Palestine" fiction concerning the ËrꞋëtz Yi•sᵊrâ•eilꞋ geopolitical entity, invented by the land's Roman occupiers nearly 19 centuries ago, came to an end in 1947-48. At that time the Arabs of ËrꞋëtz Yi•sᵊrâ•eilꞋ and their patrons in the surrounding countries rejected the opportunity the UN offered them in its partition resolution of 1947.11.29 to establish their Arab state in part of Mandatory "Palestine" alongside a Jewish state. They then nullified the resolution by going to war against newborn Israel.
"The Arab fiction concerning a "Palestinian" land and people is a more recent invention, which has taken root only since 1967, especially since MᵊnâkhꞋëm Begin gave it legitimacy at Camp David two decades ago, and more especially since Oslo.
"In 1967 even the fiction of a "Palestinian people" barely existed, if at all. As recently as 1956 the founding head of what was then indisputably the PLO murder gang, Ahmed Shukeiry, then Saudi ambassador to the UN, told the General Assembly: 'It is common knowledge that "Palestine" is nothing but Southern Syria.'
"Ten years earlier, a distinguished Arab American ardent advocate of the Arab cause, Princeton Univ. prof. of Semitic literature Philip K. Hitti, told the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: 'There is no such thing as "Palestine" in history, absolutely not.'
"Nine years before Hitti's comment, a local Arab spokesman, Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, told the Peel Commission: 'There is no such country as "Palestine". "Palestine" is a term the Zionists invented. "Palestine" is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it…'
"As for the 'territories which fell under the Israeli occupation in 1967,' the PNA would have been closer to the truth if it had mentioned that [Yᵊhud•âhꞋ = Judea = Jew, the Shom•ronꞋ, and eastern Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim] didn't merely 'fall under the Israel occupation.' The Ha-Shemite Kingdom of Jordan, which then controlled them, as it were handed them to us after King Hussein allowed himself to be seduced by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser into joining him in what they thought would be the destruction of Israel.
"It should also be remembered that the annexation of [Yᵊhud•âhꞋ] and [the Shom•ronꞋ] by Hussein's grandfather, Abdullah, after his 1948 participation in the Arab campaign to destroy Israel, was recognized only by Britain and Pakistan, and his annexation of eastern [Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim] was recognized only by Pakistan…" (Jerusalem Post Magazine, 98.06.26, p. 26-27).
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