“Palestine has no people, it’s an invention“. With these words, the Minister of Finance Israel, Bezalel Smotrichscorned hundreds of years of history. At an event held in Paris, extreme right and the anti-Arab leader of Religious Zionism provoked outcry among Palestinians after confirming that the real Palestinians are Palestinians. Jewry inhabitants of the “lands of Israel” more than two thousand years ago. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyehcondemned the statements and stressed that they exhibited “ideology”. extremist, racist and zionistWho rules Israel?
For Smotrich, the story is very different from that told by scholars or even the Bible. “There Arabs in the Middle East who came to Israel at the same time [finales del siglo XIX] He said that the Jewish Zionist return started after 2000 years of exile and that the Arabs in the region did not want this,” said the government member, “Then what do they do? They invented an imaginary town and just to fight the Zionist movement, it demands imaginary rights in the land of Israel,” said at an event he organized to commemorate the right-wing Likud activist and Jewish Agency board member: Jacques KupferHe died of cancer in 2021.
Denying Palestinian national identity
“must have tell the truth No surrender to the lies and falsifications of history by pro-Palestinian organizations and the BDS [Movimiento por el Boicot, Desinversiones y Sanciones a Israel]’, he stated. Therefore, according to Smotrich, true Palestinians are he and his ancestors. who lived in the land of Israel centuries ago. Their descriptions are very much in line with these words: settler movement ideology represented in the new Administrator. Moreover 620,000 settlers They live in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are illegal under international law. All of them believe in their legitimate rights to this land as Jews.
The Israeli minister denied the national identity of Palestine in a few short statements. “According to international law, a people is defined by its history, culture, language, currency and leadership. Who was the first king of Palestine? What is the language of Palestine? Was there ever a Palestinian currency? Is there Palestinian history and culture? No,” he insisted. There was a map on the lectern where he was speaking. ‘Greater Israel’ containing the territory present Jordanin line with the strict ambitions of some early Zionist groups.
Shtayyeh is a history of antiquities and history since Ramallah. The bond between the Palestinian people and the land “Since the beginning of human history,” according to Wafa, the official Palestinian Authority news agency. Palestinian people ‘unaffected by US statements’ impostors of history Shtayyeh proudly responded to another practice of Israeli appropriation of certain aspects of Palestinian culture or identity. “We are the ones who gave Palestine its name, its land, its value and status,” he said.this land is ours Israel, on the other hand, is a colonial state founded by colonists and settlers.”