An interesting situation, up to the other day, which went mostly unnoticed by the press. Herein,Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, slips up, and admits that the “Palestinians” came to the region when the arabs invaded, and are not an aboriginal people, at all.
Certainly, this little slip went unnoticed by the majority of the American people. And, for that matter, the people of the world. Certainly, it is to most observers a bit of an arcane point. But to me, it seems key, since one of the twin pillars of the Palestinian argument, is that the Muslims of the region are aboriginal. That is to say, descendants of the original Biblical age inhabitants and not the descendants of conquering Arabs or of the other Arabs to immigrated to Palestine in the early part of the last century for the sole purpose of getting jobs from Jewish farms and industries.
I would urge you to read the whole thing, because there are a number of points there, which are quite obviously out of whack with what the Americans, you remember them… they’re the ones funding this little fiasco… have been told. But here’s the money quote for the point I’m making:
“[Indeed,] even the churches were not spared. One of the oldest churches in
Palestine, which stood long before our arrival [in the region], was looted
and set on fire.
Whoa…. Wait a minute. Back the truck up. If you are aboriginal people, and thus have a legitimate claim to the land of “Palestine” how is it that the church Hamas burned, stood long before you arrived?
So, it is as I have been saying for the last twenty years; the “Palestinian people ” are nothing of the kind. They are claiming a birthright, which is not theirs. And what do you know; the U.N. back in 1948 actually got one right. I do love it so, when lies carried by momentum of decades, get blown up by one small slip of the tongue.
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