[adam_az]

"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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[Michael81Dus]

As I said, history is irrelevant since the situation has changed, so don´t come with quotes from the 30´s of the last century.

Is the Austrian people different from the German (and in particular of the Bavarian)? Is the "people of Liechtenstein" (ca. 40.000 citizen) different to the German people, or the "people of Monaco" different to the French people? Not really, though they´re sovereign states.

I think that the Palestinians feel as a nation, they don´t want to be dependant on Syria, Jordan or anyone else. That´s what matters. The terms and feelings have changed. Within the last decades, Palestinians became a nation and the term Palestinians is used for the Arabs living in WB and Gaza. Abdul Darawshe even said that he felt as a Palestinian ("We are all Palestinians..").

We acknowledge that the people of Palestine want to be a sovereign nation and according to Woodrow Wilson, every people has the right to decide about its future on its own. The Palestinians have chosen independancy and that´s their right by matter of fact they and Israel have made.

[yonif]

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.)

Bingo.