Daily Archives: December 22, 2017
Twilight over the “Palestinian Cause” by Guy Millière
Yasser Arafat (1929 – 2004), Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, attends the Arab League summit in Rabat, Morocco, 1974. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Reports from the West Bank after the Six Day War show that the Arabs interviewed defined themselves as “Arabs” or “Jordanians”, and evidently did not yet know that they were “the Palestinian people”. Since then, they were taught it.