The Leftist History Behind The Creation of Arab ‘Palestinians’

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-01 15:52:13 | Updated at 2024-10-02 12:31:25 20 hours ago

The Leftist History Behind The Creation of Arab ‘Palestinians’
American Thinker ^ | 10/01/2024 | Sha'i ben-Tekoa

Posted on 10/01/2024 8:46:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The United Nations Organization opened its doors in 1945, and by 1989, the Security Council and General Assembly together voted on 870 resolutions dealing with the “Arab-Israeli” conflict—as it was commonly known in those decades. When I worked on a research project commissioned by the Office of the late Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir, I read and tabulated every one of them.

In this period, the Security Council “condemned” Israel,” its highest rebuke, 49 times. Sometimes Israel was “vigorously condemned,” “deplored,” or “strongly deplored.” No Arab state was ever so chastised.

In the same period, the General Assembly “condemned,” “deplored,” or otherwise castigated Israel 321 times. Again, no Arab state was ever so judged. The aggregate number of individual state votes against Israel in the UN’s first 44 years came to 55,642 votes.

For the UN’s first quarter-century, it did not issue a single resolution referencing “Palestinians.” In those UN decades, there were no “Palestinian” on anyone’s lips.

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The “Palestinians” made their UN debut three years after the Six-Day War of 1967. Post-war, the five months of heated debate in both chambers climaxed on November 22 with UN Security Council Resolution 242, which would shape the conflict for decades to come. And this text, too, said nothing about any “Palestinians.”

The germ of this notional nation originally came from the Chairman of the Arab League of States, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: arabs; israel; palestinians

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1 posted on 10/01/2024 8:46:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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In a 1959 meeting, Nasser raised the idea of rebranding the mixed bag of migrant workers called “the Arab refugees”—as they had been called for ten years —into “Palestinian refugees,” even though there was nothing Palestinian about them. (No, it was not the KGB that created the “Palestinian” identity).

His model was the then-ongoing, five-year bloody terror rebellion in Algeria against the French (1954-62), which he supported. There, the Muslims had the brains to abandon their religious jihadi vocabulary, which would not win them support in France, and, instead, adopted the identity of patriotic, anti-imperialist freedom fighters. After WWII, there were scores of such colonial uprisings.

After that, it took another decade for the lie of “Palestinians” to gestate. Golda Meir was their inadvertent midwife.

Two years after Israel’s miraculous victory, on June 17, 1969, during an interview with the London Sunday Times, Israel’s new Prime Minister went to war against the growing fashion of speaking of Israel’s enemies not as “the Arabs” but as “the Palestinians.” Golda said, “There never was such a nation,” causing the Jew-haters to exclaim, “How dare she deny the existence of the Palestinians!” And the rest is history.

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