When Lies Rewrite History

How is it possible that the entire world repeats a lie so confidently that it has become accepted as truth? How can people, journalists, academics, politicians, say with a straight face that “Palestine has always been an Arab country,” when the historical record shows a far more complicated reality?

What Arab Leaders Themselves Said

The historical record includes statements that challenge today’s dominant narrative. When the Peel Commission, a British inquiry into the Arab-Jewish conflict, questioned local Arab leaders in 1937, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, one of the most prominent, declared:

There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.

There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.

That wasn’t an isolated remark. A similar perspective was expressed by Ahmad Shukeiri, who would later become the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1956, he........

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