them:
"Recognizing the Jewish state implies recognition of a Jewish people and recognition of its right to self-determination ... Those who assert this right also assert that the territory historically associated with this right of self-determination (i.e., the self-determination unit) is all of Historic Palestine. Therefore, recognition of the Jewish people and their right of self-determination may lend credence to the Jewish people's claim to all of Historic Palestine." 52
They seek to steal Jewish history from the Jews because if the Jews are allowed to possess their history then their claim to "historic Palestine" is indisputable. So precisely because the Jews do have that history, and hence that claim, the PA leadership must find some way to take it from them.
And since this leadership wants the entire Land of Israel, what they call "historic Palestine," to be the site of a future Palestinian state, a Judenrein state, they must not only steal Israel's history from the Jews, they must also appropriate it to themselves by foisting upon an all too credulous world the transparent lies of an ancient "Palestinian" presence — a paradise lost to the machinations of by nefarious Jews.
The entire endeavor to steal Israel's history and replace it with the fiction of a Palestinian nation of high antiquity in "historic Palestine" is war by other means. And as in all wars, the first casualty is the truth.
Endnotes
1 http://www.yale.edu/ycsd/press/palazzi.html, Yale University, Sheikh Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi, the Secretary General of the Italian Muslim Association, spoke on the topic of "Islam and Democracy -- Political Theory in the Qur'an and Islamic Tradition," March 4, 2003.
2 Besser, James, "Obama administration hits Palestinian Authority for Temple Mount 'Study', The Jewish Week , Nov. 30, 2010, http:// www.thejewishweek.com/blogs/political_insider/obama_administration_hits_palestinian_authority_temple_mount_study; and cf. also Ami-El, Mark, "The Destruction of the Temple Mount Antiquities," Jerusalem Viewpoints, 1 August, 2003, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp483.htm.
3 Routledge, London, 1996, Keith W. Whitelam, chair, Biblical Studies Department, Sheffield University (UK).
4 For demographic studies substantiating this assertion, cf. Justin McCarthy, Population of Palestine; and Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial .
5 McCarthy, op. cit supra, note #5.6 Syrkin, Marie, "Palestinian Nationalism: Its Development and Goal," in Curtis, Michael, Neyer, Joseph, Waxman, Chaim, and Pollack, Allen, The Palestinians: People, History, Politics (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1975), p. 200 ff.
7 Ibid, supra note 7, p. 201.8 Dorsey, James, Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden, Trouw,
31 March 1977; not available on line but referenced frequently on line at, inter alia:
http://www.think-israel.org/hertz.ersatzpeople.html; http://www.youtube.com/user/blessings18;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuheir_Mohsen; http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?1297324-PLO-executive-committee-member-Zahir-Muhseinquot-The-Palestinian-people-does-not-exist-quot and http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/18157 .
9 such as, but not limited to, the Encyclopaedia Britannica , the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East , and other major encyclopedias from the early 20th century on. There are other non-Israelite peoples mentioned very briefly in the Jewish Scriptures, but these nine are the ones best documented and most thoroughly researched by scholars since the mid-19th century.
10 http://www.jstor.org/ (and cf. also http://about.jstor.org/). JSTOR is a not — for — profit on-line service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of scholarly content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly sources. It enables access to and