The Attempted Erasure of an Ancient People, Part II

by Nils A. Haug • June 22, 2025 at 7:30 am

The fiction of a "Palestinian people" was admitted by a late Palestine Liberation Organization senior official Zuheir Mohsen in an interview for the Dutch Newspaper Trouw: "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons...." — Zuheir Mohsen to James Dorsey, "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden", Trouw, March 31, 1977.
None of the nations that vehemently supported the irrationality of a Palestinian state ever mentioned the slaughter by Hamas of Israel's innocents; the 54-59 hostages still held by Hamas, only 21 of whom are believed to remain alive, or that Hamas, not Israel, had started the war, or that the war could end immediately if Hamas returned the hostages, which they had no business kidnapping in the first place, and laid down its arms.
The short reply of the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to Macron was: "No Palestinian state likely in our lifetime."
"Britain is choosing to appease its own Islamists, while treating as an enemy the country that is not only fighting the same existential foe but is vital to help the United Kingdom defend itself against it." — Melanie Phillips, JNS, June 5, 2025.
It is a choice: the West is allowing its hard-won freedoms, primacy of individual rights and freedom of expression to be compromised.

France's President Emmanuel Macron, true to his predictable outlook, declared that "[t]he existence of a Palestinian state 'is not just simply a moral duty but also a political necessity,'" The short reply of the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to Macron was: "No Palestinian state likely in our lifetime." Pictured: Huckabee at his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The mass campaign to "Globalize the intifada" essentially means "Globalize Jew-hate" -- a short step to the stated intent of some Islamists to ultimately eradicate Jews globally.

This outcome is what many demonstrators seem to seek when they use supporting the cause of the so-called Palestinian people as a subterfuge, a Trojan horse, to hide their homicidal aims against the Jews, starting with Israel.

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Khamenei's Message from Purdah

by Amir Taheri • June 22, 2025 at 4:00 am

I think the overall mood in Iran, including in the ruling circles, is against Khamenei's "to the last drop of blood" posturing, if only because people know this is posturing from a leader who is personally secure in his hideout.
None of the 12 full generals -- active or in retirement -- that the regime still has, have adopted Khamenei's end-of-times posture.
Nor is there any sign of the countless number of pot-bellied one-star generals whose boastful presence polluted Iranian airwaves and screens for decades.

After a week in purdah, "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei broke his silence on Wednesday with a brief and enigmatic message (pictured) recorded in his current secret location. (Photo by Iranian Supreme Leader's Press Office via Getty Images)

After a week in purdah, "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei broke his silence on Wednesday with a brief and enigmatic message recorded in his current secret location.

Well, the location may be secret to most of us but not to Israel and its US ally, who claim they know where the "Guide" is hiding.

This was a strange message.

At no point did the "Guide" admit that Iran was facing a major crisis.

He spoke of "an imposed war" without specifying who imposed it and how, while implicitly claiming that Iran had no part in provoking it.

In other words, if he doesn't know why the war was imposed, he can't pretend to have any idea how to end it. Instead, he seemed to wish the war to continue ad infinitum by pretending that the US was demanding Iran's "unconditional surrender," something that, he boasted, the Iranian nation shall never accept.

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