[Renderofveils]

"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it". - Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937

"It has been proved to us that the Mufti aimed at the implementation of the Final Solution, viz., the extermination of European Jewry, and there is no doubt that, had Hitler succeeded in conquering Palestine, the Jewish population of there as well would have been subject to total extermination, with the support of the Mufti." - Nuremburg War Crimes Trial, ruling on Yassir Arafat's uncle, Grand Mufti al-Husayni.

[RonnG]

I always thought that it was the Romans who remamed the area Palestine, Latin for Philistine, the historic enemies of the Isralites.

[muawiyah]

Really!

Did you see how that guy slid right past the fact that there was NO SYRIA for a thousand years (more or less) because those people in that part of the world were actually TURKISH TAX SLAVES.

The Ottoman Empire was "their country" ~ kinda.

It was their very own precious "Islamic Caliphate" that had crushed their higher cultural values into the dirt and turned them into a primitive people who lived in the dust. This business with Osama Bin Ladin was all about bringing back the "Islamic Caliphate".

They'd all prefer to sink back into the ignorance and brutality they'd known for so long than stand up and be men.