How can there be a Palestinian state and a Palestinian Authority if there is no such thing as a Palestinian?
“How can there be a Palestinian state and a Palestinian Authority if there is no such thing as a Palestinian? “
That could be a problem. hehe
These misguided people would have had their state long ago if not for the militancy that has been inbreed into them.
Well, there is such a thing as a Palestinian, but only in reference to people who lived in a specific region. There never was, of course, a nation or a kingdom known as Palestine.
It’s akin to saying folks from the central Great Lakes region of the United States, extended out a few states, are Midwesterners. That is true; they are. But that does not mean Midwesterners are a national entity, or a race, or anything other than people who live in a certain geographic area.
And Palestine, as a geographic area, was, historically, the area that comprised the areas of present day southern Lebanon, southwest Syria; Jordan, Israel, and Gaza. As a racial people, they are all Semitic. They are all from the same genetic stock, but different tribes.
So, perhaps a contemporary analogy of the “Palestininan Issue” would be as if Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota picked a fight with Illinois, and said Illinois is illegitimate, and must be destroyed. As a racial people they are...well, they are pretty much anything and everything. As a geographic people, though, they are all Midwesterners.