Yes. Yes. Yes.
The “Palestinian State” issue should be considered the most successful Public Relation campaign ever. From Roman times up until about 1964, ‘Palestine’ always referred to ‘Israel,’ whether under Byzantine, Ottoman, or British Mandate times. Arabs who lived in the area never referred to themselves as ‘Palestinians’ but as part of the greater Arab population. The PLO usurped that title, claimed it as their own, created a false history, and demanded a single Jew-free state (“from the river to the sea”). The success of this campaign can be seen as one democratic European country after another votes to support this made up concept. Evil has clouded everyone’s minds. A democracy that answers to a higher authority is losing to organizations and governments that: promote terrorism, violence, violate every Geneva Convention Article, totalitarianism, and more. And we can’t understand why or how smart people in leadership positions in other democratic governments are supporting this dark side