Antisemitic celebrity real estate developer Mohamed Hadid has posted an excerpt from a 1970 interview with Golda Meir, supposedly to show how she admitted to being a “Palestinian.”
As usual, it does not show what he claims its shows. Here is the context of her comments, which Hadid conveniently did not include:
Golda is saying the Jews were the ones considered the “Palestinians” back then!
Six years later, Golda penned an op-ed in the New York Times, in which she elaborated on her thoughts regarding a “Palestinian” identity:
I am supposed to have said, “There are no Palestinians.” My actual words were: “There is no Palestine people. There are Palestinian refugees.” The distinction is not semantic. My statement was based on a lifetime of debates with Arab nationalists who vehemently excluded a separatist Palestinian Arab nationalism from their formulations.
When in 1921 I came to Palestine — until the end of World War I a barren , sparsely inhabited Turkish province — we , the Jewish pioneers, were the avowed Palestinians. So we were named in the world. Arab nationalists , on the other hand , stridently rejected the designation. Arab spokesmen continued to insist that the land we had cherished for centuries was , like Lebanon , merely a fragment of Syria. On the grounds that it dismembered an ideal unitary Arab state, they fought before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and at the United Nations.
When the Arab historian Philip K . Hitti informed the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that there is no such thing as Palestine in history, it was left to David Ben-Gurion to stress the central role of Palestine in Jewish, if not Arab, history.
As late as May 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, subsequently head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared to the United Nations Security Council, “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” In view of this, I believe I may be forgiven if I took Arab spokesmen at their word.
When it comes to liars, Mohamed Hadid is one of the dumbest ones out there. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t stop trying.
