Yes, there should be a “Palestinian” state–in Jordan. In Syria. These “Palestinian” people belong in their home country, not in Israel.

Land claims are moot if not meaningless. Only the strong hold the land. (Ask American Indians. That’s right, we still have our land–not only literally, but legally. We’re American citizens!–all declared such by the US government in 1924.) The Arabic people who actually do come from families in Palestine since 586 BCE are very few. Today’s “Palestinian” is basically a Jordanian native, or a Syrian. And the first Arabic people in Palestine never formed a country, a nation, nor ever had a unified religion or social structure at all. We’re not talking about an ancient nation here, with any particular claim or right to such a status or its accoutrements. “Palestinians” are not the descendents of some ancient Arab nation in Palestine.

“Palestinian” illusionist
rhetorician, Hanan Ashrawi.

What we’re talking about today is an illusion, a professional reactionary social response. We’re talking basically rhetoric, nothing more. We’re talking Hanan Ashrawi. There is no “Palestinian” people, or any semblence of a “Palestinian nation.” In 1949, Arab activist Musa Alami said of the Arabs in Palestine regarding the idea of a nation, “most of them do not know the meaning of the word.” “How can people struggle for their nation?” “The people are in great need of a ‘myth.’” (See, “The Lessons of Palestine,” in The Middle East Jounral, October, 1949.) Sixty years hasn’t created a nation, a nationality, a religion, a language, or any basic fundamentals of nationhood. It has produced a prolonged piece of failed political strategem, targeting Israel, which has brought nothing but suffering to all involved.

Hussein bin Talal, King of Jordon

Jordon’s King Hussein said in a 1960 (Associate Press interview):

Since 1948, Arab leaders have aproached the Palestine problem in an irresponsible manner…They have used the Palestine people for slefish political purposes. This is ridiculous and, I could say, even criminal.”

Cited by Terence Prittie, “Middle East Refugees,” in The Palestinians: Pople, History, Politics, ed. Michael Curtis (New Brunswick, 1975)

The dynamic hasn’t changed in the last 60 years, either. The “Palestinian” thing has simply been a black hole for any amount of aid, help, or personnel offered. As in any condition of mental depression, anger is the immediate (if not the sole) motivating factor. Enter: Hamas. Feeding on anger, frustration, and desperation, Islamic leaders keep the “Palestinian” people titilated with violence and passion. Whipped up emotion is the essence of Islam in these situations, and it is difficult to separate from the nature of the human species in volved.

The ’cause and effect’ relationship has been actually reversed by the media in the last half-century. This reversal permeates all media perspectives, from the most basic, to the highest imagined academic political rhetoric. It’s all a fabrication.

In Jordon, in 1958, UNRWA director Ralph Galloway declared,

The Arab states do not want to solve the [Palestinian] refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations, as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees [Palestinians] live or die.

Funny, Truman’s administration recommended the “refugess” all re-settle in Iraq. At least 750,000 of them. This was especially pertinent at the time, since at least 120,000 Jews had just left Iraq to come to Israel. Britain thought Syria could absorb at least 200,000 “Palestinian” refugees. Alas, no Arab state wanted their “Palestinian” brethren. Not even Jordon. When eight and a half million Hindus fled from Pakistan in 1950, and six and a half million Muslims migrated from India to Pakistan, they just worked it out, not bloodlessly, but effectively. But the Arab states would not accept their own kin, despite their common religion, Islam. It was more important to have a strategic prick wherewith to poke Israel perpetually.

After a half century of poking, there are those who think there is actually a “Palestinian” people, with national identity, who are being cruelly denied something.

But, the world will never fool Israel. For Israel’s sake, the world cannot be fully fooled about “Palestinians,” either. The Arab attitude towrad the “Palestinians” has not changed. The only difference today is that the numbers of “Arabs” crammed into Gaza and the West Bank have increased. They have achieved the highest birth rate in the world, as well as a fine immigration rate–only the immigrants are militants come with weapons in hand. Truly, the only function of “Palestinians” is to hate Israel. The “Palestinian” social entity is a parasitic illusion, fueled with weapons from Arab and Islamic nations (like Iran).

In the last analysis, the “Palestinians” have only the Arab nations to blame. The ‘Palestinian” is the illegal Mexican immigrant of the Middle East.