More disturbing is that, in 1964, the Arabs created a fiction they called the “Palestinians” and blanketed the world successfully with the mantra that they were the Palestinians and Palestine (read “Israel") was theirs. Later, on March 31, 1977, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein explained the strategy to the Dutch newspaper Trouw: “The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel. In reality, there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak about the existence of a Palestinian people since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.”

This fiction has served the Arabs well over the decades by providing them with a cover for their religious hatred and continuous rejection of an independent Jewish state on Arab lands - from the Arab rejection of the 1936-1937 Peel Commission Report on partition, to the Arab rejection of the 1947 partition into an Arab and Jewish state; to the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel offered to exchange land in return for a permanent peace with its neighbors leading to the Arab response of three No’s in the 1967 Khartoum Declaration – no negotiation, no recognition, no peace; to the Israeli withdrawals from southern Lebanon (2000) and Gaza (2005) that left genocidal terrorists on Israel’s northern and southern borders; to former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s offer in 2000 of virtually everything the Arabs claimed they sought – a sovereign state with its capital in East Jerusalem, 97% of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and tens of billions of dollars in “compensation” for the plight of Palestinian refugees - all of which was rejected by Arafat who then brought on the Second Intifada and the murder of over a thousand Israelis; to the covenant of Hamas declaring endless war not only against “the Zionist entity” but against Jews everywhere; to the years of harassment from Muslims that has led to a lengthy exodus of Christians from the West Bank and Gaza; to polls conducted recently by a reputable Norwegian polling institute showing conclusively that a majority of Palestinians are not only against a two-state solution but desire a single Arab state from the Jordan to the Mediterranean; to the Palestinian media and Palestinian textbooks that continue to promote a culture of martyrdom and hatred of Israel and Jews; to Palestinian “moderates” like Mahmoud Abbas who recently rejected any possibility that the Jews could or should be considered one of the “two peoples” in any proposed two-state solution ... all of which leads to the question of how, in the face of such hatred, anyone could possibly believe that peace can be attained through the creation of another failed Arab state in the Middle East?
http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2009/05/americas_twostate_fantasy.html

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