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(FrontPageMagazine) Lawrence Auster- The myth hanging over all discussion of the Palestinian problem is that this land was "Arab" land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews. As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take Palestine from the Arabs; they took it from the British, and the British don't want it back. Before that, it was a province of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years, and the Turks don't want it back. So any Arab claim to sovereignty based on inherited historical control will not stand up. Arabs are not native to Palestine but come from Arabia, the historic home of the Arabs. The Palestinian claim to be descended from Canaanites is an invention that came after the 1964 founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Prior to 1964 there was no "Palestinian" people and no "Palestinian" claim to Palestine; the Arab nations who sought to overrun and destroy Israel in 1948 planned to divide up the territory among themselves.2004-09-03 00:00:00Full Article
How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?
(FrontPageMagazine) Lawrence Auster- The myth hanging over all discussion of the Palestinian problem is that this land was "Arab" land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews. As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take Palestine from the Arabs; they took it from the British, and the British don't want it back. Before that, it was a province of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years, and the Turks don't want it back. So any Arab claim to sovereignty based on inherited historical control will not stand up. Arabs are not native to Palestine but come from Arabia, the historic home of the Arabs. The Palestinian claim to be descended from Canaanites is an invention that came after the 1964 founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Prior to 1964 there was no "Palestinian" people and no "Palestinian" claim to Palestine; the Arab nations who sought to overrun and destroy Israel in 1948 planned to divide up the territory among themselves.2004-09-03 00:00:00Full Article
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