Posted on 05/07/2026 12:53:17 AM PDT by Freeleesy
The idea behind this is as follows: Jews were massacred and their property stolen by Arabs, therefore Arab Palestinians have a right to it in perpetuity. They believe this is true of Jewish property in Jerusalem and Hebron as well, for example. This is a cornerstone of anti-Zionism, that Jews have no right to life or property.
Yet there’s another point to be made here besides the fact that the mayor of New York and a legion of progressive-aligned anti-Semites revealed their unique combination of ignorance and bad faith. There are a couple of problems with the whole concept of “Palestinian land.”
The first is that “Palestinian” here is used to mean “Arab.” The protest mob reportedly even chanted “From water to water, Palestine is Arab.” When they use the phrase “Palestinian land” they are declaring it Judenrein.
Second: If a Palestinian Arab personally owns a piece of land, that land is a Palestinian’s land, which is not the same thing as Palestinian national territory. From the perspective of national claims and sovereignty, it is, at most, disputed land. There have been two sovereign claimants to land on what is known as the West Bank: Israel and Jordan. Jordan relinquished its claims on the land decades ago. Israel has not annexed it. There is no Palestinian national claim to sovereignty, even if one believes that eventually turning it into Palestinian sovereign national territory is the only just resolution to the conflict.
Thus the Palestinian claim to disputed territory that was once occupied by the state of Jordan can best be described as “land the Palestinians want.” That’s fine! They are more than entitled to make demands in a negotiation process. And they should aspire to precisely the kind of statehood that Israelis—both Jews and Arabs—have built with its capital in Jerusalem. The state of Israel is a worthy model, and though successive Palestinian governments have rejected offers of statehood, perhaps they are reconsidering.
Israel did not invade a place called “Palestine” and take its land. It fought a defensive war against Jordan and won. “Palestinian land” is a concept of the future—if the Palestinians want it.
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Most so called “palestinians” are grandchildren of Arab immigrants, settlers anyway .
Primarily Jordanians. Jordan used to be called “Trans-Jordanian Palestine”. Palestine is a region, it was never a country. Another term for this area is The Levant. Palestine as a country is a historical fiction. And to suggest it ever existed is the height of mendacity.
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Find an intellectually HONEST PALEOstinian and he/she will tell you the truth is irrelevant.
All you need to know is NO ARAB NATION allows so-called Palestinians to live within their borders
They are universally known as violent troublemakers.
They are the most reviled inhabitants of the region.
The whole problem is that Muslims, Jews, and Christians consider Jerusalem a most sacred city. No matter how good of a settlement you come up with there will be at least one person who thinks having the others in the city is akin to allowing the devil into your most sacred site. Mostly Muslims will be violent over that thought.
Old Turkish law of Palestine said that land, which is not irrigated, belongs to nobody.
So Jewish settlers came and claimed that useless land for themselves and turned it to the beautiful country it is now.
Totally legal.
Muslims didn’t care about Jerusalem except to the extent Jews want to live there.
The entire “third holiest site” shtick is a known joke. The recent claim, told to stupid Westerners, is the Al Asqua mosque was visited by Mohammed on his magic flying horse (named “Barack”) is a literally for western consumption .
The mosque on the Temple Mount was built AFTER Mohammed died. All Muslims know this and laugh at westerners who believe their “holy city”excuse.
This is a mooselimb concept.
People following big mo’s lead after all these years
The Prussians were cleared out of Prussia.
They behaved badly and got removed.
-- Zuheir Mohsen, leader of the Ba'athist As-Sa'iqa faction of the PLO, 1977
(All you need to know is NO ARAB NATION allows so-called
Palestinians to live within their borders)
YEP
Dave Hunt (RIP) noted that Kuwait deported 300,000 Palestinians
decades and decades ago - and the Arab world was essentially
silent - it’s ALWAYS overlooked
The Israeli left really screwed up when they defeated Jordan in 1967 by not re-patriating the nearly 100k Jordanian Arabs who had colonized the West Bank and “east” Jerusalem from their 1948 invasion until then - and also taken back cities like Hebron. Now those Arabs are in the millions, and the situation is quite impossible.
Israelis actually referred to themselves as Palestinians at one time.
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