Was there ever a state of Palestine? An observation in Time Magazine well articulated how the Palestinian identity was born so belatedly in the 1.
Golda Meir once argued that there was no such thing as a Palestinian; at the time, she wasn’t entirely wrong. Before Arafat began his proselytizing, most of the Arabs from the territory of Palestine thought of themselves as members of an all- embracing Arab nation. It was Arafat who made the intellectual leap to a definition of the Palestinians as a distinct people; he articulated the cause, organized for it, fought for it and brought it to the world’s attention. If there was an Arab Palestinian culture, a normal population increase over the centuries would have been expected.
But with the exception of a relatively few families, the Arabs had no attachment to the Land. If Arabs from southern Syria drifted into Palestine for economic reasons, within a generation or so the cultural tug of Syria or other Arab lands would pull them back. This factor is why the Arab population average remained low until the influx of Jewish financial investments and Jewish people in the late 1. Land economically attractive. Then sometime between 1.
Arab population shot up to 5. Not to absolve the Jews but to defend British policy, the not overfriendly British secretary of state for the colonies, Malcolm Mac. Donald, declared in the House of Commons (November 2. The Arabs cannot say that the Jews are driving them out of the country. If not a single Jew had come to Palestine after 1. I believe the Arab population of Palestine would still have been around 6.
The representative Arab view was substantially that which King Husain . In the Arab view, Palestine was an Arab territory forming an integral part of Syria.”Referring to the same Arab view of Palestine in 1. George Antonius spoke of “the whole of the country of that name . Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian People, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria.
You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people.”Assad stated on March 8, 1. Palestine is a principal part of Southern Syria, and we consider that it is our right and duty to insist that it be a liberated partner of our Arab homeland and of Syria.”In the words of the late military commander of the PLO as well as member of the PLO Executive Council, Zuhair Muhsin: “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity.
Henrietta Szold enlisted generations of American Jewish women in the practical work of supporting Jewish settlement in Palestine and Israel. As an essayist, translator, and editor, she became one of the few women to play a.
The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.”The following are significant observations by Christians of the Arabs in Palestine in the 1. The Arabs themselves, who are its inhabitants, cannot be considered but temporary residents. They pitched their tents in its grazing fields or built their places of refuge in its ruined cities. They created nothing in it. Since they were strangers to the land, they never became its masters.
The desert wind that brought them hither could one day carry them away without their leaving behind them any sign of their passage through it.”Stephen Olin, D. D., L. L. D., called one of the most noted of American theologians after his extensive travels in the Middle East wrote of the Arabs in Palestine “.
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