“I will pay $100,000 to anyone who can tell me the names of the Palestinian president and army chief of staff at the time Israel occupied Palestine. Edy Cohen did last week with a Twitter post that went viral across the Arab Middle East. But it’s a lie that is exceedingly simply to disprove, no matter how deep the brainwashing.Īnd that’s just what our very own Arab affairs correspondent Dr.
If one nation took land that didn’t legally belong to any another, and has some compelling reason to have done so, then it is “disputed,” not occupied.īack to the point, the Arab world at large has today internalized the lie that there was once a “Palestine” that is today occupied by Israel. This fiction is necessary because under international law, there can only be “occupation” if one nation takes land from another.
The Palestinian narrative tells us that there was once a “Palestinian” people or nation living in a country called “Palestine” that was conquered and occupied by Israel.
