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"Palestine" for Dummies


(Jewish World Review) David D. Perlmutter - Why should the Palestinians, who have no separate religion, culture, history, national identity, ethnicity, or language from other Arabs, be given a homeland ahead of say, the Kurds (an independent ethnic nation for thousands of years)...or for that matter many American aboriginal peoples. David Yeagley, a professor at the University of Oklahoma and a descendent of the Commanche war-chief Bad Eagle, told me, "My people existed as a separate nation before the Ottomans invaded Europe....Why aren't we getting airplay for a homeland while some thug in Jenin is a media-darling?"
2003-01-24 00:00:00
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