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"PALESTINE" QUESTIONS FOR YOUR FRIENDS
Yashiko 19 DEc 2002
Know people who believe the lies regarding a Palestinian state?
Sagamori, writing in a recent edition of Jerusalem Insights suggests the
following questions:
If you are so sure that 'Palestine', the country, "goes back through most of recorded history", I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions
about that country of Palestine:
A. When was it founded and by whom?
B. What were its borders?
C. What was its capital?
D. What were its major cities?
E. What constituted the basis of its economy?
F. What was its form of government?
G. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
H. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time
or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
I. What was the language of the country of Palestine?
J. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
K. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell
what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit
against the US dollar, German mark, British pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese
yuan on that date.
L. Since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did
it occur?
M. And the least sarcastic question of all? If the people that are
mistakenly called "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected
from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a
genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why
did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their
devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
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