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"Palestinians are a people, that is a matter of fact. What makes out a people? A feeling to be stick together, a common history, similar traditions, etc - the process is flowing."

Before 1948, "Palestinian" referred to Jews. Yet another thing the Arabs co-opted. Palestinians are Arabs, no different culturally than other Arabs.

Please tell me how Palestinians are culturally different from say, Jordanians or Syrian Arabs. Or Egyptian arabs. DO they have a a distinctive language? A distinctive culture? WHo are their great leaders throughout history Before say, 1940.)

Can you counter any of these quotes? They show conclusively that Palestinians are not a "people."

Statement by Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi to the Pell Commission in 1937 -
"There is no such country as 'Palestine'; 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented!"
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"One always finds in Palestine Arabs who have been in the country only a few weeks or a few months...Since they are themselves strangers in a strange land, they are the loudest to cry: 'Out with the Jews!...Amongst them are to be found representatives of every Arab country: Arabs from Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, the Sudan and Iraq."

(Ladislas Farago, Palestine at the Crossroads (New York: Putnam 1937) p17
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Declaration of the 8th Palestinian National Congress

"Jordan is linked to Palestine by a national relationship and a national unity forged by history and culture from earliest times. The creation of one political entity in East Jordan and another in Palestine would have no basis either in legality or as to the elements universally accepted as fundamental to a political entity. "
-(R. Hamid (ed.) Muqararat al-majlis al-watani al-filastini 1964 Resolutions of the PNCs 1964-1974, Beirut, PLO Research Centre, 1975, p178 Declaration of the 8th Palestinian National Congress)
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"This (Jerusalem) for them (the Arabs) was not in 'Palestine'. For the Arabs (And the Turks) the whole of the region lying between the Taurus Mountains and the confines of Egypt, and between the Mediterranean and the edge of the desert, was 'Syria' a term which had been in use since remote antiquity. "
-(Sir Geoffrey Furlonge, Palestine is My Country, The Story of Mussa Alami (New York, 1969) p. 7
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Arab MK, Abdul Darawshe said [Jerusalem Institute of Western
Defence, Bulletin 3, August 15, 1997]:"There is no difference between one Palestinian and another. We are all
Palestinians and we are all Syrian Arabs."
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Palestinians are a people, that is a matter of fact. What makes out a people? A feeling to be stick together, a common history, similar traditions, etc - the process is flowing. They also have the land (well not formally yet, but soon), so that they just need a state structure to become a real state.

Please direct me to some evidence which provides support for your claim that "Palestinians" are different then other Arabs in their history, traditions, etc. THe fact is there isn't any. They are mostly Jordanians and Egyptians (Arafat is Egyptian). Jordan is considered 80% "Palestinian." They have no right to the land as Jordan relinquised any claim to that land, therefore, spreading propaganda supporting that the Arabs in those areas are a "people" which deserve a state. This is all a plan for Israel to cede more land so it becomes more vulnerable. WHy do you think Israel was forced to take land after the 1967 war? For defensive purposes. These Arabs already have a state and 20 others to go to. The Arab world refuses to allow them in, cause then they will lose their execuse of being hateful of Israel, etc.