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**Arab historian Professor Philip Hitti, Testimony to the Anglo-American committee of inquiry. Quoted in ''Unholy War'', p. 138. | **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. | ||
**Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi to the Peel Commission. Quoted in ''Unholy War'', p. 142 | **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. | **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 | *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 | **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 | *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. | **Palestinian Arabs congress in Damascus, 1920. Quoted in ''Greater Syria'', p. 65. | ||
*[Palestine] should be part of Southern Syria, | *[Palestine] should be part of Southern Syria, provided the latter is not under foreign control | ||
**Muslim-Christian association, 1919. ''Greater Syria'', p. 67. | **Muslim-Christian association, 1919. ''Greater Syria'', p. 67. | ||