| Palestine extends into Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. In 1970, some two-thirds of the Jordanian population was Palestinian. Why is it only Israel that must give up territory? The simple truth is that there never was a nation called Palestine. It was made up because the Muslims thought they could easily defeat the Jews. When their wars failed to push the Jews out, those that left the areas they used to live in became burdens on Jordan and Syria. So they became 'Palestinians' and perpetuated the victim status for decades. Jordan certainly didn't want them - read about 'Black September' (which put an end to the PLO's rogue state-within-a-state in Jordan in 1970), and the Black September Organization (BSO), i.e., 'Fatah forces' in northern Jordan, who continued to fight the Jordanian Army until 1971 after Jordan expelled Yasser Arafat and the PLO. They went to Lebanon, where they proceeded to create a similar state-within-a-state, weaponizing a dozen Palestinian refugee camps around Beirut and in South Lebanon, and destabilizing the Lebanese government, just as they had done in Jordan. The PLO was expelled from Lebanon following Israel's 1982 invasion. The Palestinian group Hamas openly operates a political office in Damascus, where it maintains close contacts with Iranian officials. The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which, like Hamas, has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Israel, is resident in Damascus. Damascus has allowed the Iranian-backed Hizballah terrorist organization to operate freely from areas of Lebanon under Syrian control; Syria also permits Iran to resupply periodically Hizballah through Damascus airport. The reality is they don't want a separate state, they want the place currently known as Israel. They don't want to live in peace but to take over what the Jews worked so hard to build since Israel's conception. Why does everyone know this but Obama? |
