Palestine started as a Soviet concept used as tool in the former USSR hatred towards democracy. Israel just happened to have been the only democratic country in the Middle East during the time when the Soviets were launching their Marxist indoctrination campaign worldwide. With the help of the Soviet propaganda machinery, Palestinian Arabs were portrayed as indigenous people whose human rights were being trampled upon by Israel. Now that communism is dead and radical Islamism has risen to be democracy’s arch nemesis, Palestine remains as an instrument of hatred towards the West. And yes, the old indigenous yarn is still being perpetuated by Muslim extremists.
It was the Soviet Union that invented the concept of Palestine – its desire for statehood and need for liberation. If self-rule and self-determination are buzzwords of radical Islamists (with those currently in Palestine as no exception), here is proof that Russians loved those buzzwords, too. The PLO Charter, drafted in Moscow in 1964, was approved by 422 Palestinian representatives that were handpicked by the KGB. The KGB founded the PLO as a Soviet-designed ‘liberation front,’ like those in Che Guevarra’s Bolivia and Colombia. They were USSR’s centers of Marxist indoctrination meant to topple democracy and capitalism.
Israel was the only democratic country in the Middle East. Ergo, PLO’s role in the Soviet movement was clearly set out. The USSR proceeded to fund, train, and supply PLO terrorist operations. It is uncanny that the West Bank and Gaza were not items of utmost consideration when Palestine was being conceptualized. Article 24 of the original PLO Charter explicitly states that “this Organization [the PLO] does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in the Gaza Strip or the Himmah area.” PLO was not interested in Gaza.
The Khartoum Conference in 1967 explicitly declared the 3 NOs, namely: NO Peace with Israel, NO Recognition of Israel and NO Negotiations with Israel. Yasser Arafat considers this declaration one of his greatest diplomatic achievements. Logically so since he headed the PLO under the aegis of the KGB. PLO existed precisely for the destruction of Israel.
Palestine, therefore, is an erstwhile brainchild of a now fallen empire and a concept shrewdly stolen and presently utilized to the maximum by a self-proclaimed emerging ideology. For its former framers and conceptualizers, the so-called Palestinian nationalism ends with the end of Israel. West Bank and Gaza are merely proof of the unrelenting ambition of radical Islamists that are proving to be more desperate than communists.
