There is no ‘Palestinian’ state — there never was
And there are still fools out there who believe the claims that have been invented out of whole-cloth by the terrorists who have besieged Israel since its founding...
Israel now has a quasi-state to contend with. "A victory for the values of truth," exclaimed Sudan's U.N. diplomat after the General Assembly voted to admit Palestine as a non-member observer.
It's a victory for the Palestinian camp, perhaps, but in truth it was a defeat -- of historic proportions. Recalling one thing and reaffirming another, the resolution the GA voted on was packed with lies. Most were blatant. One lie -- you could say the catchphrase of the Palestinian perpetual show -- enjoyed the sanctity of accepted wisdom.
"The Palestinian territory occupied since 1967" appeared, in one form or another, some dozen times in the U.N. resolution. This whopper of an old lie, told so often and for so long as to merge fantasy with reality, made Israel's defeat at the U.N. a long time coming. One might say that it made Israel's defeat historically inevitable.
"Occupied Palestinian Territory" (OPT) is a thing of smoke and mirrors. Historically, it never happened; legally, there never was Palestinian territory for Israel to occupy. Israel took the territories from Egypt and Jordan in 1967, and there's no getting away from that. So today Israel has more right than Jordan to be occupying the West Bank, and more right than Egypt to be occupying Gaza (if Israel's blockade may be called occupation). "Palestine" never enters the equation. Turn Middle East wars and laws upside-down and any way you like, but if the territories belong to any U.N. member, or quasi-member, they belong to Israel.
Not even the famous U.N. Resolution 242 can help. It told Israel to withdraw from territories once held by Jordan, illegally, and Egypt, and it envisaged those territories' return to those two countries. "Palestine" never got a mention in Resolution 242 -- for a couple of good reasons. [...]
After many decades of fighting, Israelis and Palestinians finally agree to discuss how to end the hostilities by establishing once and for all, who held rightful ownership over the disputed land.
The delegations met in a neutral zone, and faced each other across the table.
Before negotiation began, the head Rabbi of the Israeli delegation asked for permission to bless the meeting with a Biblical story, having no significant objection, the Palestinian delegates agreed to allow his to do so.
The Rabbi began his story...
"After wondering in the desert for forty years, Moses finally was able to stand on the shore of the River Jordan, and look across it at the sight of the Promised Land beyond. Not knowing yet that G_d would deny him entry, Moses thought it fit to cleanse his body before leading the people to the end of their journey, so he shed his clothing, and immersed himself into the clear waters of the river, praising G_d for his good fortune.
Moses suddenly hears a noise behind him, and tunes just in time to witness some Palestinian children steal his clothes and run away into the rocks and bushes that lined the banks..."
At that point in the Rabbi's story, the Palestinian delegation becomes visibly upset. They call the Rabbi a liar, and demand an apology from the Zionists.
"Once again the Zionist occupiers resort to leas about the people of Palestine!"
"Once again the seek to make the people of Palestine into thieves and criminals!"
The Rabbi stops and addresses the angry people across the table.
"I meant no disrespect, but this is a Biblical story, what on Earth upset you about it?" asks the Rabbi.
"That Palestinians couldn't have stolen Moses' clothes," yells the Palestinian delegation leader. "There were no Palestinians during the time of Moses!"
"Ah ha!" says the Rabbi. "Now we can begin discussing who has title to the land."
All reputable historians and intellectuals should be saying this, but I don't hear them. Ergo, there can't be many such people out there, though there are plenty of disreputable ones.