Geeez....next thing you gonna tell me is that there is no such thing as a "Palastenian", they are not a "Race", and were pretty much "invented" in the late 60's.
I don't think Flyboy will tell you that, because as you say, he knows something about the situation.
there is no such thing as a "Palastenian"
No, but there are Palestinians. They are the people who live in West Bank and Gaza, and take their name from the fact that those areas used to be called "Palestine".
They aren't Egyptian, because they don't come from Egypt, and don't have Egyptian citizenship. They aren't Jordanian, because they don't come from Jordan, and don't have Jordanian citizenship. They aren't Lebanese, because they don't come from Lebanon and don't have Lebanese citizenship. And they aren't Israeli, because they don't come from Israel and don't have Israeli citizenship.
they are not a "Race",
Of course they aren't a race, any more than Americans, Poles, British, French, Canadians, Mexicans, Germans, Italians or Israelis are a race.
and were pretty much "invented" in the late 60's.
That's an awful lot of test tube babies.
At partition in 1948, there were about 1.2 million Arabs and 600,000 Jews in Palestine.
The first proper census of the are in modern times was taken by the British in 1922, which showed a population of about 650,000 Arabs, 84,000 Jews in Palestine.
Or even that the Israeli's (read:Jews, their most hated foe's), being willing to give the Palastinians land,
Give the Palestinians land? The current issue is that Israel won't withdraw from the land they are occupying. No other country can "give" this land to the Palestinians because it's Israel occupying it.
Or even some crazy fact, like 80% of the money that the Palestinian govt. get's is from "western" countries.
No, 50% comes from taxes levied on the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Of the rest, as of the end of 2003, the EU had donated $280 million, Arab states $880 million and the rest of the world around $110 million.
