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The Origin and Appropriation of the Word ‘Palestine’ May Surprise You.

 As appeared on Israel National News/Artuz Sheva and my Times of Israel blog.    What’s in a name? An often-asked question whose answer is complicated. For example: Why does the media call them Arab towns but Israeli settlements ? Why did Greece protest when a new country, located to their north, named itself Macedonia , and then forced by the outcry to rename itself North Macedonia? Why did my mother insist I am David and not Dave? The simple answer: Words have meaning. Creation of the Palestinian Liberation movement. In 1964, at a conference in Cairo, Egypt, it was outsiders ( Russia , Egypt, the Arab League), not the “Palestinians,” who created the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). By definition, “appropriation” is the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission. The Arab leadership took the name “Palestinian/Palestine” and attached it to the Arab refugees of the 1948-49 Israel War of Independence. Five Arab
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The UN-PA Resolution is the Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back

 As appeared on the Times of Israel Blogs and updated for Arutz Sheva/Israel National News . The almost routine action of the United Nations condemning Israel and inaction of not condemning Hamas, Hezbollah, or their puppet-master Iran for its heinous and barbaric terrorism, has been going on for decades. But the recent Palestinian Authority’s UN resolution is the straw that broke the camel’s back. This resolution, and its list of sponsors and supporters, is a perfect example of taqiyya , an Islamic concept that allows lying to confound and defeat enemies through deception. Three of the four Arab countries, who are signatories to the Abraham Accords, which are bilateral agreements on Arab-Israeli normalization, are among the sponsors of this anti-Israel resolution. Yet all four voted for the PA resolution. This dichotomous behavior is not surprising. If one looks back to the Oslo Peace Accords (a set of agreements between Israel and the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organizati
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