Azmi Bishara: There is No "Palestinian" Nation. Never Was!

Arutz Sheva ^ | 27/11/2009 | Avi Yellin

[Eleutheria5]

The Zionist Freedom Alliance of California has been circulating a video on the internet this past week exposing former Member of Knesset Azmi Bishara denying the existence of a “Palestinian” nation. The video was recorded years prior to Bishara entering Israel's parliament in 1996 as head of the Arab Balad party.

Bishara, who resigned from the Knesset and fled the country in 2007 just when Israeli Security Services were ready to arrest him on charges of treason and espionage, is shown in the video reiterating his Arab nationalist position that there is no such thing as a “Palestinian” people.

Yehuda Katz, who leads ZFA in the largely anti-Israel Bay Area of northern California, told Israel National News that people should really investigate the basic claims of the Middle East conflict before expressing strong opinions. “History did not start in 1967. We, the modern day Hebrews, have almost a 4,000 year old history and an uninterrupted presence in our homeland for over 3,300 years. The Palestinian nation was invented in the 1960s by Yassir Arafat and Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu in an attempt to erase our history and steal our land. These facts cannot be ignored any longer. ‘Palestine’ was initially a foreign colonialist concept invented by the Romans who massacred, exiled and enslaved the Jewish people. It is not an authentic Arab identity.”

Video (dead) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3n5-yG-6dU

The You Tube video works

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[Eleutheria5]

Old, probably posted before, but good to post again.

[Biggirl]

.....Also in the last few months, Israel has allowed the Christian Arabs to adopt the new reference of Arameans instead.

[petercooper]

Palestine is mentioned how many times in the Koran?

[SJackson]

Same number as Jerusalem. Jews get mention, must have lived in the area.

[SJackson]

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[GladesGuru]

Not to play Nomenclature Nazi, but to use “Palistinian” as an adjective is incorrect.

The correct word is “Palisimian”, a noun, derived from the region Palistine, and “simian”.

All together now, Boys and Girls, can you say “Palisimian”?

I knew you could.

;-)

[Jan_Sobieski]

What language do Palestinians speak?
Who was their first King?
When was Palestinian country first established?
What was their ancient capital?
(what a joke...)

[Eleutheria5]

“Who was their first King?”

Haj Amin elHusseini, appointed king in 1921 by the British, after he lost an election for the theological post of Mufti. He was 21 at the time, and Muftis were not kings, just clerics.

[onedoug]

The Chief philistinian was an arab called arafat.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Exactly...a fictional nation with no king...no nation...no language...nothing but Jordanians and Egyptians.

[Eleutheria5]

Jordan itself is fictional, a consolation prize for one of the Husseini brothers for the Britons’ failure to make him king of Syria. Nothing for it but to take 70% of the land granted to the Jooos! and give it to him along with his very own crown, throne, and people looking to assassinate him. Subjects? A few Bedouins will have to do until the “Palestinian” “refugees” take up residence in the occupied (by Jordan) Judah and Samaria.

[Eleutheria5]

But the grand hypocrisy of it all is that the Kurds, a real nation, with its own language, culture, and ancestral lands, are really being warred against, and they are denied their own state.