Not long ago, we saw rallies going on all-across America in support of the Palestinians; in support of Hamas. Curiously this followed attacks by Hamas that murdered over 1,200 Israeli civilians and resulted in the taking of hundreds of hostages. Shortly after the attacks, students at George Washington University held a “Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine.” 
At the University of South Florida, Students for Socialism chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” Their theme is easy to understand. Palestine, all of Palestine, rightfully belongs to the Palestinians. The Israelis are oppressors. Stealers of the land! But is there truth in these claims? And spewing that narrative breeds the hate and grows the spirit of anti-Semitism. In Australia they chanted, “Gas the Jews.” Shouldn’t that be incomprehensible in today’s so-called enlightened world? Sadly, it is not.
The fight for this land goes back dozens of generations. And if we look to the Scripture, we find one people has a clear call on the land. It all goes back thousands of years to Ishmael Abraham’s son of the handmaiden – and – Isaac, his son of the promise. Ishmael was the father of the Arab nation and Isaac was in the line of the Jews. Speaking of Ishmael God told Abraham, “I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.” (Genesis 17:20) (Hebrew Bible) But the Land would go to the offspring of Isaac. But the Lord appeared to Isaac and made this promise. “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 26:2-4) God’s word clearly gives the Land to Israel – and that includes Jerusalem. But there’s the rub.
The conflict that began thousands of years ago has never quite gone away. But the saddest part is that this is a conflict based on a myth – and that myth is the existence of the Palestinian People. What’s really going on is the biggest fake news story in a long time. Let me explain. There’s this imaginary land…No, no! The land is real…but there’s this imaginary people…Wait, let me get this right…the people are real….but they’re not who they say they are…and they’ve been lying about who they are for several decades now – so that they don’t even know that they’re lying any more….some of them at least, that they’re not the people that they say they are. Make sense? And you know what’s even crazier than that? Like, big chunks of the world believes them. World leaders and news guys and commentators; almost all the movers and shakers are buying into this…stuff…And they’re making it really hard on the folks that really do have the rights to this land. And right now all these movers and shakers are working real hard to get the guys & gals that really do have the rights to that land….well they’re trying to get them to give up a bunch of it – to this people that never really were. And listen. The imaginary people are even getting ready to declare statehood even as they riot and fight against the folks that have the rights to the land. OK, I admit it. I’m not making this up. It really is that crazy!
NO! Wait! That’s what’s really going on. Here’s the truth. As Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once declared: “There is no such thing as a Palestinian people.”[i] That was like wow politically incorrect and absolutely historically true. And this is supported by the very Arabs that invented and pushed the lie. In 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the Dutch paper Trouw, in which he spilled the beans.
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”[ii]
The fact is: Israel moved into the territories only after Arab countries initiated wars of annihilation against the Jewish presence. Those Arab countries included Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen. Did you notice? No Palestine! It didn’t exist. In the entire period from Israel’s modern founding in 1948 until the end of the 6-Day War, in 1967, (during the whole time that Egypt controlled Gaza and Jordan held the West Bank), – no mention was ever made of the Palestinian People.[iii] Curiously and conveniently, they only found their voice after that disastrous war. So let’s look at the History of the Land.”
In the beginning: There was no Palestine. The Israeli conquest took about 200 years beginning in 1200 BC. Before that Amalekites, Jebusites, Hittites, Amorites, and Canaanites among others, occupied the Land: – There were no Palestinians.[iv] Over time, as Israel struggled in their commitment to God, they struggled to maintain control of the land. Babylonians, Persians, Hasmoneans and Romans took their turns at ruling The Holy Land. Back around 63 BC, Rome turned the formerly independent Israel into an administrative district they renamed Palestine. (Since that time, all the peoples who would occupy the Land became known as Palestinians; – whether Greeks, Arabs or Jews.) In time the Caesars grew tired of an Israel always in revolt against Rome. In AD 70 and again in 135, Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and dispersed hundreds of thousands of Jews into all the nations of the world. Yet through the centuries, a remnant always remained. In the centuries that followed came Byzantine Greeks, the conquering armies of Islam, the Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottoman Turks, and after WWI, – the British. Then in 1948, Israel regained a part of the Land.[v] The fact is The Jews have had a continuous presence there for 33 centuries. Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital since that time. As a matter of record, Mohammed never once even visited the Holy City. In fact it wasn’t until 635 AD that conquering Islamic armies, wrested control from its legitimate Jewish owners. So any Islamic claim can date only back to the 7th century; – while the Jewish presence always remained, even under Islamic occupation.
[i]Joseph Farah, Palestinian people do not exist, World Net Daily, July 11, 2002
[ii] Interview with Zahir Mushein, as recorded by Trouw (Netherlands), March 31, 1977, as quoted in Farah, Palestinian people do not exist, World Net Daily, July 11, 2002
[iii] Jerry, Golden, It’s all one big lie, The Golden Report, August 14, 2005
[iv] Numbers Chapter 13, The Bible
[v] Jerry, Golden, It’s all one big lie, The Golden Report, August 14, 2005
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