Palestinian Authority Head Admits "Palestinian People" Don’t Exist

Daniel Greenfield writes at FP:

The Palestinians are one of the more ridiculous historical hoaxes. If you believe the media, they’re an ancient distinct people with a historical claim on the land of Israel.

In reality they’re a collection of invaders, colonists and migrants. A sizable group among them, the Afro-Palestinians, are African Muslims who arrived there in the 20th century to fight against Israel.

Many other Arab Muslims came to work in industries created by the British Mandate. The entire thing became more convoluted when Jordan was split off under one of the Hashemite kings creating a country full of the same Arab Muslims, but who are deemed not to be Palestinians, even though Jordan is in fact full of “Palestinians”. It got sillier when Jordan seized parts of Israel and annexed them, at which point the “Palestinians” there ceased to be “Palestinians” who needed national rights, but became “Palestinians” again once Israel liberated the area.

But this has to be denied because otherwise the mandate for a “Palestinian State” collapses. Sometimes though the truth slips out.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has described Jordanian and Palestinian Arabs as “one people living in two states,” during a meeting with the head of the Jordan Football Association on Tuesday. Bethlehem-based Maan News cited the Jordanian al-Ghad newspaper as saying that Abbas arrived in Jordan from Doha along with several other senior PA officials, including its intelligence chief Majid Faraj. The Arabic-language Al-Quds news outlet directly quoted Abbas, who it said “stressed that the relationship between Jordan and Palestine is the relationship of ‘one people living in two states,’ adding that this relationship will not be affected by anything.”

That’s somewhat literally true. But still rather limited. The Hamas Foreign Minister was more honest about it.

Personally, half my family is Egyptian. We are all like that. More than 30 families in the Gaza Strip are called Al-Masri [“Egyptian”]. Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians. We are Arabs. We are Muslims. We are a part of you.

If only they would go home.