Where's Waldo? Crazy Adnan Edition

Boy, those Jews sure know how to get the world riled up don't they?

How dare they walk into a trap set up by Turkey armed with only pocket knives and paint guns. How dare the kill 9 people trying to save their own lives and prevent arms from entering Gaza.

Ever since it has been a steady stream of Palestinian this or Palestine that.

There has been so much patriotic Palestinian flag waving that it is sometimes easy to forget that there is no such place as Palestine, outside the fevered minds of radical Islamists anyway.

Go ahead and find a decent map. I see lots of things in the middle east but Palestine isn't one of them. It has no boundaries, no government, no capital and no official recognition. If you're thinking about the Gaza Strip, that isn't a nation-state. It's a pathetically small strip of land that was hijacked by terrorists that the Israelis essentially use as a jail camp. Is Kurt Russell part Jew? Escape from Gaza starring Simon Plisken! It writes itself.

You never know how far back Arabs go when they are talking about historical rights to property, etc. I'm sure they would take all of this back to the Crusades (while ignoring the fact that the first crusade was in response to militant Muslim expansion) if they could but for rational people, we will look to the last time there was a Palestine on the map. That would be the British Mandate of Palestine, that ended after WW2.

Yes indeed, to look at a map of the British Mandate, there appears to be a rather large section of this earth called Palestine. Certainly large enough to house all the "Palestinians" in Israel today, so what happened to all that land?

Well, the vast majority of it was used to create Lebanon and Jordon while also expanding the territory of Syria. The tiny sliver that wasn't used up expanding those Muslim states was used to create Israel. Even that wasn't a fair enough split though as Israel was supposed to be set up as a partial independent Jewish/partial independent Arab state. The Zionists agreed to this compromise. The Arab League gave a big hell no and promptly tried to eradicate the Jews. As has been the case, the Arabs were soundly thrashed by the Jews, setting the stage for the last 60+ years of conflict.

Since then, Palestine has ceased to exist in any tangible way. It could easily exist if Syria and Jordon ever decided to give some of that former Mandate up to become Palestine. Certainly those two countries aren't doing anything productive with it. Why not just create a Palestinian state that way and end this nonsense?

Arabs will tell you that they have some right to Jerusalem, etc. If you go back far enough there isn't a culture that doesn't have some claim to the Holy Cities. I'm pretty sure if you dig deep enough you can find some artifacts from the little known Eskimo Reign of Terror period in Bethlehem.

The real reason though is that if Palestine were to become a legitimate State, then the surrounding Arab nations, in addition to Hamas and Hezbollah, wouldn't have a built in excuse to kill Jews, which is all they really want to do. No two-state solution, no original partition plans. These groups want a free license to kill Jews at will and the perceived oppression in "Palestine" is the convenient cover they need. The UN, who created all this partitioning nonsense, seems more than willing to buy that tripe hook, line and sinker.

So next time the world gets righteous and indignant about the plight in Palestine, just remember, that it's all a myth.

You can't steal land that is legitimately yours.

You can't oppress criminals engaged in seditious rebellion. It's called law enforcement and every country on Earth does the same thing.

You can't reason or rationalize with dreams or ghosts.

And you shouldn't try.