Robert Spencer: The 2024-05-05 Jihad Watch and the Left Column Daily Digest

The 'Palestinian People': A Brief History

As readers of Jihad Watch know, the "Palestinian people" first came into existence in 1964, at the suggestion of the KGB, and then the phrase really took off after the Arabs' defeat in the Six-Day War in 1967, when it was deemed necessary to reframe the Arab-Israeli conflict. No longer would that conflict be seen […]

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Hugh Fitzgerald The Israeli Genocide of 'Palestinians': A Brief History For its enemies, in addition to being an "apartheid" state, and a "colonial-settler" state, Israel is also a "genocidal" state. This claim has been made ad nauseam since October 7, but it was made frequently before then as well. Yet both before and after October 7, those making it never adduce any evidence to support […] Read more Hugh Fitzgerald The Scorpion Pass Massacre: A Brief History The Palestinians like to justify their terrorism against Israelis as being prompted by the Jewish state's control of the "occupied West Bank." But before Israel came into possession of the West Bank (the name that Jordanians gave to those parts of Judea and Samaria they had seized in the 1948 war) in 1967, when tiny […] Read more Hugh Fitzgerald