A Japanese View of the Palestinians by Yashiko Sagamori

A Japanese View of the Palestinians by Yashiko Sagamori

If you are so sure that Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history',
I expect you can answer a few basic questions about it:

When was it founded and by whom? What were its borders? What was its capital?
What were its major cities? What constituted the basis of its economy? What was its form of government?

Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat? Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, has no room for interpretation?

What was the language of the country of Palestine? What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?

What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history & state the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US Dollar, German Mark, GB Pound, Japanese Yen, or Chinese Yuan.

And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise & when did it occur? You are lamenting the 'low sinking' of a 'once proud' nation. Please tell me, when exactly was that 'nation' proud and what was it so proud of?

And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you mistakenly call 'Palestinians' are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?

I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day 'Palestinians' to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work here.

The truth is obvious to anyone wanting it: Arab countries never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel; they still cherish it today. Having time & again failed to achieve their evil goal with military means, they decided to fight Israel by proxy. So they created a terrorist organization, cynically called it 'the Palestinian people' & installed it in Gaza, Judea, & Samaria.

How else do you explain the refusal by Jordan & Egypt to unconditionally accept back the 'West Bank' & Gaza, respectively?

The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, & Samaria have much less claim to nationhood than that Indian Tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino. At least that tribe had a constructive goal motivating them.

The so called 'Palestinians' have only one motivation: the destruction of Israel. In my book that isn't sufficient to consider them a nation -- or anything else, except what they really are: a terrorist organization that'll one day be dismantled. In fact, there’s just one way to attain peace in the Mid E: Arab nations must acknowledge & accept their defeat in their war against Israel & as the loser should pay Israel reparations for the 50+ years of devastation they've visited on it.

The most appropriate form of reparations would be removing their terrorist organization from Israel & accepting its ancient sovereignty over Gaza, Judea, & Samaria. That'll mark the end of the Palestinian people. What are you saying again was its beginning? Yashiko Sagamori