P F Tinmore
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Arab Commentator Azmi Bishara...
Well, I dont think there is a Palestinian nation at all. I think there is an Arab nation. I always thought so and I did not change my mind. I do not think there is a Palestinian nation, I think its a colonialist invention - Palestinian nation. When were there any Palestinians? Where did it come from? I think there is an Arab nation. I never turned to be a Palestinian nationalist, despite of my decisive struggle against the occupation. I think that until the end of the 19th century, Palestine was the south of Greater Syria.
Professor Azmi Bishara: There Is No "Palestinian Nation", Never Was ! - YouTube
Then all those Palestinians should turn in their birth certificates for correction.
But then what should Palestine be changed too?
Palestine doesn't exist for it to be changed, dumbo. Palestine ceased to exist with termination of the British Mandate in 1948 and Israeli statehood.
You get a cookie if you find Palestine on this UN map http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/israel.pdf
Philip Hitti, Arab historian, Princeton Univ. professor, advisor to the Arab delegation which established the United Nations representing the Institute of Arab American Affairs testifying before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946...
The Sunday schools have done a great deal of harm to us, becauseby smearing the walls of the rooms with maps of Palestine, they areassociating it in the mind of the average American--and I may say perhaps the Englishman too---with the Jews. Sir, there is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.
The designations employed and the presentation of material on this
map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the
part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal
status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities or
concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/israel.pdf