Latest update: December 12th, 2012 Words matter. Terrorist
mastermind Yasir Arafat’s extraordinary durability in creating a
Palestinian state upon mounting corpses has been fashioned upon
a prior linguistic victory. Ironically, all language describing
an Israeli “occupation” in this area conveniently overlooks the
entire history of the territories, especially the unwitting
manner in which these lands first fell into Israel’s hands after
the overtly genocidal Arab aggression in 1967. Contrary to
widely disseminated but wholly erroneous allegations, a
sovereign state of Palestine did not exist before 1967 or 1948.
Nor was a state of Palestine ever promised by authoritative UN
Security Council Resolution 242. Indeed, a state of Palestine
has never existed. Even as a nonstate legal entity, ‘Palestine’
ceased to exist in 1948, when Great Britain relinquished its
League of Nations mandate. When, therefore, during the 1948-49
War of Independence, Judea/Samaria (the “West Bank”) and Gaza
came under flagrantly illegal