Palestinian Identity - Empty Shells

Submitted by John Hummasti (United States), Jan 26, 2012 at 15:43

Palestinian Nationalism was once a Jewish Movement and must be reclaimed as such! While the PLO, Hamas and Jordan have the same goals (eliminating the Jewish State); Palestinian Nationalism as an Islamic/ Marxist movement must be seen "vis-a-vis" the world view (us vs. them) held out by "back-ward societies" bent on advancing the Palestinian/Islamic Cause; the Palestinians possessed no speakable identity as a separate political entity such as, for instance, the American Natives who were exempt from the Constitutionally mandated census (The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution:).

The Iroquois League has also been known as the Iroquois Confederacy. So why not create an identity to perpetuate a religio-cultural war against the west by the use of marxist terms, identity and strategem to prop up the neo-communist Obama administration's pc machine where it's to their advantage? If the Palestinians really had an identity separate from Bedouin, Circcassians, Armenians, Egyptians or others, then they might have a case, but they are a mixed bag of nuts (klipot - empty shells) !

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