Quotes denying Palestine: Difference between revisions

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**Arab historian Professor Philip Hitti, Testimony to the Anglo-American committee of inquiry. Quoted in ''Unholy War'', p. 138.

*~~there~~ is no such country [land] as Palestine! ...Palestine is a term the Zionists invented! ...There is no Palestine in the Bible. ~~'Palestine'~~ is alien to us; it is the Zionists who introduced it.

*There is no such country [land] as Palestine! ...Palestine is a term the Zionists invented! ...There is no Palestine in the Bible. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us; it is the Zionists who introduced it.

**Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi to the Peel Commission. Quoted in ''Unholy War'', p. 142

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**King Hussein. Quoted in ''Unholy war'', p. 142.

*How can people struggle for their nation, when most of them do not know the meaning of the word?...The people are in a great need of a ~~'myth'~~ of imagination. The myth of nationality would create ~~'identity'~~ and ~~'self~~-~~respect'~~

*How can people struggle for their nation, when most of them do not know the meaning of the word?...The people are in a great need of a ‘myth’ of imagination. The myth of nationality would create ‘identity’ and ‘self-respect’

**Musa Alami in ~~"the~~ lessons of ~~Palestine"~~

**Musa Alami in “the lessons of Palestine”

*It never occurred to the people of Northern and Coastal Syria that Southern Syria (or Palestine) is anything but a part of Syria

**Palestinian Arabs congress in Damascus, 1920. Quoted in ''Greater Syria'', p. 65.

*[Palestine] should be part of Southern Syria, ~~rovided~~ the latter is not under foreign control

*[Palestine] should be part of Southern Syria, provided the latter is not under foreign control

**Muslim-Christian association, 1919. ''Greater Syria'', p. 67.