WorldNetDaily: Palestinian people do not exist

WorldNetDaily: Palestinian people do not exist: "WND Exclusive Commentary Palestinian people do not exist
Posted: July 11, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern

A provocative headline? It's more than that. It's the truth.

Truth does not change. Truth is truth. If something was true 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, it is still true today.

And the truth is that only 30 years ago, there was very little confusion on this issue of Palestine.

You might remember the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir making the bold political statement: 'There is no such thing as a Palestinian people.'

The statement has been a source of ridicule and derision by Arab propagandists ever since. They love to talk about Golda Meir's 'racism.' They love to suggest she was in historical denial. They love to say her statement is patently false – an intentional lie, a strategic deception.

What they don't like to talk about, however, are the very similar statements made by Yasser Arafat and his inner circle of political leadership years after Meir had told the truth – that there is no distinct Palestinian cultural or national identity.

So, despite the fact that conventional wisdom has now proclaimed that there is such a thing as the Palestinian people, I'm going to raise those uncomfortable quotations made by Arafat and his henchmen when their publ"