What is 'Palestine,' anyway?

I'm in favor of a Palestinian state.

That may shock some people.

Of course, I'm not talking about the so-called "two-state solution" bandied about by so many in the international community today – the one today's so-called "Palestinians" employ to push for their version of a "final solution."

I'm in favor of the original Palestinian state promised by the British government in 1917, when "Palestine" was a rocky, swampy, barren land populated almost exclusively by Jews who called themselves "Palestinians."

That Palestinian state was a Jewish state – bigger than the current nation of Israel, which has already been divided up six ways to Sunday in deference to later-arriving Arab populations.

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Doubt me?

Take a look at this Larousse French dictionary from 1939. In the appendix it lists all flags of the world in alphabetical order. You'll notice that for Germany, at that time, the prominent feature was the swastika – a flag that has not flown anywhere since 1945:

Now, alphabetically, look for the Palestinian flag. There it is. What does it look like? Surprised? It's a blue and white background with a yellow Star of David. You know that was not the creation of Arabs. There was already a Palestinian state in 1939 – and it was Jewish!

Of course, those who understand history won't be surprised by this. There was a newspaper called the Palestinian Post published at the time. It was a Jewish paper. Today it's called the Jerusalem Post. Jews who lived in the land at that time called themselves "Palestinians." Arabs and Muslims seldom if ever used that word to describe themselves until after the 1967 Six-Day War when Yasser Arafat successfully co-opted the term.

Do you hear what I am saying?

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From 1920-1948 a (class "A" mandate) State of Palestine existed as per international law but it was, as all of its major institutions, Jewish. Until the 1960s, the name "Palestine" resonated as something Jewish to people's ears. The 4,000-year-old Jewish homeland or "Land of Israel" or the "Holy Land" were all synonymous.

The British, as legal controlling authority of the mandate, managed the state partially with a Jewish auxiliary until Jews regained official sovereignty in 1948, by declaring independence.The U.N. did not recreate Israel as some people claim.

If you'd like to see all this spelled out in legalese, check this out in the Yale Law School Library: Find out what the Palestinian Mandate was all about – it was about a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

"The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion," it states.

Today, Israel remains the only nation in the Middle East that affords just that – "safeguarding the civil and religious rights" of all the people who live within its territory "irrespective of race and religion."

The new, contrived "Palestinian" movement insists the state it is attempting to create be free of all Jews – "Judenrein," as the Nazis who inspired their ambitions would say.

So, when I say I favor a "Palestinian state," it's the original one I'm talking about.

The Arabs only adopted the term in the propaganda war they waged and continue to wage – insinuating themselves as the original, indigenous population group in the land. It's not so.

Jews have been the dominant group in "Palestine," no matter how you define it, since the turn of the 20th century. And that's true even though for much of that time they were forbidden and restricted from emigrating there.

It's just too bad so few people comprehend the true story of the land of Israel. They've been blinded by disinformation for so long. There's simply no other way to frame it accurately.

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