“I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land." — Mahmoud Abbas, July 28, 2010, speaking to Egyptian media.

There has never been a civilization or a nation referred to as "Palestine" and the very notion of a "Palestinian Arab Nation" having ancient attachments to the Holy Land is complete hoax at best. There is not, nor has there ever been, a distinct "Palestinian" culture or language.

Further, there has never been a Palestinian state governed by Arab Palestinians in history, nor was there ever a serious Arab-Palestinian national movement until 1964. This was three years before the Arabs of "Palestine" lost the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza as a result of the 1967 six-day war (which the Arabs started). Even the so-called leader of the "Palestinian" people, Yassar Arafat, was an Egyptian! Israel first became a nation in 1312 B.C., 2,000 years before the rise of Islam.

The term "Palestine" came from the Roman Emperor Hadrian, in 135 A.D. He slaughtered nearly 600,000 Jews in nearly three years of severe persecutions. He attempted to root out Judaism which he saw as the cause of continuous rebellions, prohibited the Torah law and Hebrew calendar, and executed Judaic scholars. In an attempt to erase the memory of Judea, he renamed the province (Syria Palaestina) after the Philistines, Israel's most hated enemy.

It should be noted that the land of Israel was never without a Jewish presence! Also for over 3,300 years of history, Jerusalem has been a capital city for only the Jewish people.

Frank Bernabei
Sterling Heights