David Meir-Levi has an excellent piece at Frontpagemag.com covering the history of the self-proclaimed "palestinians". It is everything I have ever read about the palestinians", summarized into a brief. Here are some snippets:

After he took over as leader of the PLO, [1] Arafat sent his adjutant, Abu Jihad (later the leader of the PLO’s military operations), to North Vietnam to study the strategy and tactics of guerilla warfare. Arafat was struck by Ho Chi Minh’s success with left-wing sympathizers in the United States and Europe. “Progressive” activists on American campuses, enthusiastically following the line of North Vietnamese operatives, had succeeded in reframing the Vietnam War from a Communist conquest of the South into a struggle for national liberation. An insight into this North Vietnamese PR campaign, which provided the key to the Communist victory and a lesson for PLO operatives, was offered by Ho’s chief strategist, General Giap: “Stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your terror war into a struggle for human rights. Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand.”

The term Palestinian, ironically, was used during the British Mandate period (1922-1948) to identify the Jews of British Mandatory Palestine. The Arabs of the area were known as “Arabs”; and their own designation of the region was balad esh-Sham (the province of Damascus). While some Arab nationalist writers, and coffee-shop intellectuals in Cairo or Beirut, developed the concept of Arab nationalism in large part as a response to Zionism, the terms “Palestine” and “Palestinian” were used in their traditional sense as geographic designations, not as national identities.

Article 24 of the PLO’s original founding document, the PLO Covenant, states: “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.” For Arafat before the Six-Day War, Palestine was Israel. It was not the West Bank or the Gaza Strip; because the West Bank and the Gaza Strip belonged to other Arab states, and the inhabitants of these areas were not numbered among the Palestinians whose “homeland” Arafat sought to “liberate.” The only "homeland" for the PLO in 1964 was the State of Israel. However, in response to the Six Day War, the PLO revised its Covenant on July 17, 1968, to remove the operative language of Article 24, thereby newly asserting a “Palestinian” claim of sovereignty to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Take the time to read it. It will be worth your while. To some it may come as no surprise. To others it will hopefully, at the very least, create some questions that will lead to the truth.

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So the big kick off has happened. An agreement was made that Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert will TRY to come to a peaceful settlement by the end of next year. The keyword being TRY. I'm sure Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Iran, Syria, and numerous other factions will have a say in all of this. This was a waste of time. Mahmoud Abbas will refuse to give up the idea of using East Jerusalem as their so-called capital. President Bush is proving ignorant with his ideology of spreading democracy. It was the world's accepted view of democracy that put Hamas in charge of the "palestinian" government. Democracy, for the ignorant, is more than voting.

Now we get to sit back and watch as more finger pointing and more rockets rain down, and more terrorist attacks occur because the islamists want their idea of democracy. Israel will continue to cede land and refrain from action as Abbas loses more and more control of the "palestinian" people. Hamas will continue to terrorize those who disagree with their approach. Hamas will continue to take funding from anyone in order to maintain their reign of terror. The US, Israel, and others will continue to verbally separate these people from Abbas while Abbas continues to live on borrowed time. At some point Khalid Mashaal will have had enough and will have the approval of his handlers to end Abbas' reign.

This little shindig in Annapolis will prove to be worse than Oslo and Camp David. Israeli's will continue to die and live in fear of the "newly formed democratic palestinian" nation. Then again, what do I know? I am just an average everyday right wing hardliner looking for any reason to go to war. At least this is what my own President would call me. I believe this conference is a waste therefore I am against peace. That's what I heard today. It's nice being labelled by a guy who makes deals and shakes hands with terrorists. Mr. President, I would rather be me than you. I don't have the luxury of ignoring reality. I am faced with the results and consequences of history and my own actions daily.

As long as politicians live in their fantasy world, the rest of us will be living in nightmares far worse than the ravages of war.

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I recommend reading this piece from the Jerusalem Post. It is very good.

If Iran is ever going to be attacked for it's nuclear ambitions and complete human rights violations it should be now. The more the Iranian politicians spew forth their" we can't be defeated" propaganda the more obvious it becomes that this is for Iran's enablers benefit.