There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and
Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political
reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity, because
it is in the interest of the Arabs to encourage a separate Palestinian
identity in contrast to Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate
Palestinian identity is there only for tactical reasons. The
establishment of a Palestinian state is a new expedient to continue the
fight against Zionism and for Arab unity
Statement by Zuheir Mohsein, Member of the Supreme Council of the PLO
(from Trouw (Dutch newspaper) March 31, 1977):
One always finds in Palestine Arabs who have been in the country only a
few weeks or a few months...Since they are themselves strangers in a
strange land, they are the loudest to cry: 'Out with the
Jews!...Amongst them are to be found representatives of every Arab
country: Arabs from Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, the
Sudan and Iraq.
(Ladislas Farago, Palestine at the Crossroads (New York: Putnam 1937) p17
Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan, and Jordan hails every
Palestinian who seeks to do his duty to his cause and his country
The Jordanian Foreign Minister said (Adwa'min pp. 4-5)
Jordan is linked to Palestine by a national relationship and a national
unity forged by history and culture from earliest times. The creation
of one political entity in East Jordan and another in Palestine would
have no basis either in legality or as to the elements universally
accepted as fundamental to a political entity.
(R. Hamid (ed.) Muqararat al-majlis al-watani al-filastini 1964
Resolutions of the PNCs 1964-1974, Beirut, PLO Research Centre, 1975,
p178 Declaration of the 8th Palestinian National Congress)
This (Jerusalem) for them (the Arabs) was not in 'Palestine'. For the
Arabs (And the Turks) the whole of the region lying between the Taurus
Mountains and the confines of Egypt, and between the Mediterranean and
the edge of the desert, was 'Syria' a term which had been in use since
remote antiquity.
(Sir Geoffrey Furlonge, Palestine is My Country, The Story of Mussa
Alami (New York, 1969) p. 7
Palestine and Syria are one homeland. The Arab people will win by the
sword; the victory will be won by the Jihad of the Arab world.
Abdul Malik Dahamshe, an Israeli Arab Knesset member, at a
solidarity visit in Damascus, Syria [David Makovsky, Jerusalem Post,
January 24, 1995]
There is no such country as 'Palestine'; 'Palestine' is a term the
Zionists invented!"
Statement by Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi to the Pell Commission in 1937
There is no difference between one Palestinian and another. We are all
Palestinians and we are all Syrian Arabs.
Arab MK, Abdul Darawshe said [Jerusalem Institute of Western
Defence, Bulletin 3, August 15, 1997]:
It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria
Statement by Ahmed Shuqeiri, to the UN Security Council in 1949
We will take Palestine and turn it into a part of the greater Arab
nation
Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) number two in the PLO leadership (Al Sachrah,
Kuwait, Jan. 6, 1987)
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