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Sharing a relevant list of questions relating to Palestinian pride and
Palestinian statehood.

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*A Japanese View of the' Palestinians' **

** Couldn't have said it better.**
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*Talk about one picture being worth a **THOUSAND words.*

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*Is the world just plain stupid?*

* ** An interesting questionnaire for Palestinian Advocates** **
By Yashiko Sagamori** **
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**If you are so sure that " Palestine , the country, goes back through most
of recorded history," I expect you to be able to answer a few basic
questions about that country of Palestine :
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**1. When was it founded and by whom?
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**2. What were its borders?
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**3. What was its capital?
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**4. What were its major cities?
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**5. What constituted the basis of its economy?
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**6. What was its form of government?
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**7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
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**8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that
time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
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**9. What was the language of the country of Palestine ?
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**10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine ?
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**11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell
what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit
against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese
yuanon that date.
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**12. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its
demise and when did it occur?
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**You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation. Please tell
me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?
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**And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you
mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from
all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a
genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why
did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their
devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
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**I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians" to
the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work
here.
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**The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab
countries have never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel ; they still
cherish it today. Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal
with military means, they decided to fight Israel by proxy. For that
purpose, they created a terrorist organization, cynically called it
"the Palestinian
people" and installed it in Gaza , Judea, and Samaria . How else can you
explain the refusal by Jordan and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the
"West Bank" and Gaza , respectively?
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**The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have much less
claim to nationhood than that Indian tribe that successfully emerged in
Connecticut with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that
tribe had a constructive goal that motivated them. The so-called
"Palestinians" have only one motivation: the destruction of Israel , and in
my book that is not sufficient to consider them a nation" -- or anything
else except what they really are: a terrorist organization that will one day
be dismantled.
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**In fact, there is only one way to achieve peace in the Middle East . Arab
countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against
Israel and, as the losing side should, pay Israel reparations for the more
than 50 years of devastation they have visited on it. The most appropriate
form of such reparations would be the removal of their terrorist
organization from the land of Israel and accepting Israel's ancient
sovereignty over Gaza , Judea, and Samaria .
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**That will mark the end of the Palestinian people. What are you saying
again was its beginning?*

-- 
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~

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**And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War? 

Uh huh. Seen it all before. Classic example of pariah state historical apologetics. The other major variant, which hasn't been seen much since the end of Apartheid, claimed that the Bantu peoples of South Africa had all moved into the region after Afrikaner settlement because of the marvelous prosperity the latter created. 

I'm guessing that if someone wrote a mirror-image polemical piece repeatedly putting "Jewish people" in quotation marks, you'd be going on about "anti-Semitism. " 

**I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians" to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work here. 

Well, I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day European speakers of Yiddish and Ladino to the Biblical Hebrews, just because they adhere to a latter-day variant of the same religion. 

In fact, there is only one way to achieve peace in the Middle East . Arab countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against Israel and, as the losing side should, pay Israel reparations for the more than 50 years of devastation they have visited on it. 

The invaded and occupied people should pay reparations to the invaders and colonizers for the crime of resisting occupation. No doubt if Nazi Germany had persisted to the present day you'd be calling on the French to pay reparations for fighting back. Well, that's certainly chutzpah--I' ll give you that. 

The most appropriate form of such reparations would be the removal of their terrorist organization from the land of Israel and accepting Israel's ancient sovereignty over Gaza , Judea, and Samaria . 

Talking about substituting etymology for history! The modern-day Zionist movement's choice of the name "Israel" for a colonial entity, based on the fact that a nation practicing an earlier variant of the same religion occupied the same territory two thousand years ago, is about as valid as Mussolini's appeal to the Roman Empire as a precedent.