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From the end of the Jewish state in antiquity to the beginning of British rule, the area now designated by the name Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries . . . . -- Professor Bernard Lewis, Commentary Magazine, January 1975. It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria. — Ahmed Shukairy, United Nations Security Council, 1956 There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not — Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946 There is no such country as Palestine. Palestine is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our country was for centuries part of Syria. Palestine is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it. — Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Local Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 Up until 1948 about the only people who called themselves Palestinians were Jews. (The “Palestine Post” was a Jewish newspaper) At the time most Arabs rejected the term. After 1948 Palestinian Jews called themselves Israelis and the term Palestinian dropped out of common use until after 1967. “An indoctrination of the ‘myth’ of Palestinian nationality would create ‘identity’ and ‘self-respect’ Musa Alami, the Lessons of Palestine, 1949 The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism. Zuheir Muhsin, executive committee member of the PLO, March 31, 1977, in the Dutch newspaper Trouw “Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian State is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.” Zuheir Muhsin, quoted in the Dutch daily Trouw March 1977
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