For decades, the world has been sold a myth: that there exists an ancient people called “Palestinians” whose homeland was somehow stolen by the Jews. Everyone knows this isn’t true — they simply choose to act as though it were. These people are not Palestinians. They are UNRWA Clientele, also called UN-Ruh Clientele — or simply the Clientele. And I explain why below. Keep reading.

The truth is simple: Palestine is Israel. Palestinians are Israelis. Insisting otherwise is not just historically inaccurate; it is a deliberate attempt to rewrite identity, history, and geography.

The name “Palestine” and the term “Palestinians” were deliberately repurposed, especially after 1967. I have explored this in detail in my writings:

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Of course, people of conscience avoid calling them “Palestinians,” because they know the truth and refuse to feed their narrative. Many put the term in quotation marks or state plainly that “the Palestinian people does not exist.” But that alone is not enough, and it doesn’t work. Israeli statespersons like Golda Meir — and even Arab leaders and historians — have repeatedly acknowledged this reality. Yet Ziophobes have built a counter-narrative, claiming that denying a “Palestinian people” amounts to ethnic cleansing or ethnocide — their latest newspeak invention.

The stronger approach is to reclaim the narrative. This is why my own tagline reads: “Russian-American-Israeli Palestinian. Palestine is Israel.” I urge all Israelis — Jewish and non-Jewish alike — to do the same. We are the real Palestinians. All Israelis.

So what about those who falsely claim to be “Palestinians”? They are the undocumented Arab settlers in Judea, Samaria, and........

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