Who Invented Palestinian Nationalism and Why? | Explained
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Soviet anti-Zionism is an anti-Zionist and pro-Arab doctrine promulgated in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. While the Soviet Union initially pursued a pro-Zionist policy after World War II due to its perception that the Jewish state would be socialist and pro-Soviet, its outlook on the Arab–Israeli conflict changed as Israel began to develop a close relationship with the United States and aligned itself with the Western Bloc.
Anti-Israel Soviet propaganda intensified after Israel's sweeping victory in the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, and it was officially sponsored by the agitation and propaganda media of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as well as by the KGB. Among other charges, it alleged that Zionism was a form of racism. The Soviets framed their anti-Zionist propaganda in the guise of a study of modern Zionism, dubbed Zionology.[1] The Soviet anti-Israel policy included the regulated denial of permission for Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate, primarily to Israel, but also to any other country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_anti-Zionism
The answer is that the “Palestinian” construct is no accident. The idea of “Palestinians” was invented by Muslim Brotherhood’s Yasir Arafat and Soviet operatives in 1964. They created the Palestinian Liberation Organization, whose draft charter demanded annihilation of Jews and the obliteration of Israel, a religious jihad. The Soviet KGB convinced Arafat to leave that wording out and replace it with descriptions of an oppressed population seeking liberation, a struggle for human rights, a quest for self determination. The latter language would be better accepted, and even embraced, by the West. And so, the psychological manipulation of the Western mind, and even Israelis, began.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-dont-have-to-accept-the-palestinian-lie/
Anti-Israel Soviet propaganda intensified after Israel's sweeping victory in the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, and it was officially sponsored by the agitation and propaganda media of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as well as by the KGB. Among other charges, it alleged that Zionism was a form of racism. The Soviets framed their anti-Zionist propaganda in the guise of a study of modern Zionism, dubbed Zionology.[1] The Soviet anti-Israel policy included the regulated denial of permission for Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate, primarily to Israel, but also to any other country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_anti-Zionism
The answer is that the “Palestinian” construct is no accident. The idea of “Palestinians” was invented by Muslim Brotherhood’s Yasir Arafat and Soviet operatives in 1964. They created the Palestinian Liberation Organization, whose draft charter demanded annihilation of Jews and the obliteration of Israel, a religious jihad. The Soviet KGB convinced Arafat to leave that wording out and replace it with descriptions of an oppressed population seeking liberation, a struggle for human rights, a quest for self determination. The latter language would be better accepted, and even embraced, by the West. And so, the psychological manipulation of the Western mind, and even Israelis, began.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-dont-have-to-accept-the-palestinian-lie/
It's hardly fair to give the name of "psychological manipulation" to the only reasonable thing under the circumstances.
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Hmmm.............. and now Putin is undermining The United States of America.
Note.............. the Palestinians were terrorists against the British along with the what were not yet the Israelis.
The Brits finally gave it all up. I DOUBT the USSR had any say in any of that, but prove it to us.
Note.............. the Palestinians were terrorists against the British along with the what were not yet the Israelis.
The Brits finally gave it all up. I DOUBT the USSR had any say in any of that, but prove it to us.
The evidence that simple autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza was never the PLO’s true goal is everywhere. In 1970, US Secretary of State William Rogers suggested that the West Bank and Gaza be given up by Israel in return for peace and recognition. This plan was accepted by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. Only Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, rejected it, opting instead to attempt an overthrow of Jordan’s King Hussein.
The evidence runs deeper. Yassir Arafat, who was head of the PLO until 2004, was under the direct tutelage and control of the KGB. Ion Mihai Pacepa, KGB officer and onetime chief of Romanian Intelligence, was assigned to handling Arafat. Pacepa recorded several of his conversations with Arafat when they met in Romania at the palace of brutal dictators Nicolai and Elena Ceausescu. In these conversations, Arafat unequivocally states that his sole aim is to destroy Israel.
Pacepa and the KGB were delighted. They consulted General Giap, a close associate of Ho Chi Minh, who was involved with the North Vietnamese propaganda effort during the Vietnam War. Giap recommended to Arafat that he “stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your [Arafat’s] terror war into a struggle for human rights.” It had worked in Vietnam, he claimed, because transforming the conflict from one of ideologies (Socialism vs. Capitalism) to one of an “indigenous” people’s struggle for liberty had turned the tide of popular support in the West against the war.
Similar advice was provided to Arafat by Muhammed Yazid, minister of information in two Algerian wartime governments. He wrote “wipe out the argument that Israel is a small state whose existence is threatened by the Arab States, or the reduction of the Palestinian problem to a question of refugees; instead present the Palestinian struggle as one for liberation like the others. Wipe out the impression that in the struggle between the Palestinians and Zionists, the Zionist is the underdog. Now it is the Arab who is oppressed and victimized in his existence because he is not only facing the Zionists but also world imperialism.”
https://stanfordreview.org/deception-palestinian-nationalism/
The evidence runs deeper. Yassir Arafat, who was head of the PLO until 2004, was under the direct tutelage and control of the KGB. Ion Mihai Pacepa, KGB officer and onetime chief of Romanian Intelligence, was assigned to handling Arafat. Pacepa recorded several of his conversations with Arafat when they met in Romania at the palace of brutal dictators Nicolai and Elena Ceausescu. In these conversations, Arafat unequivocally states that his sole aim is to destroy Israel.
Pacepa and the KGB were delighted. They consulted General Giap, a close associate of Ho Chi Minh, who was involved with the North Vietnamese propaganda effort during the Vietnam War. Giap recommended to Arafat that he “stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your [Arafat’s] terror war into a struggle for human rights.” It had worked in Vietnam, he claimed, because transforming the conflict from one of ideologies (Socialism vs. Capitalism) to one of an “indigenous” people’s struggle for liberty had turned the tide of popular support in the West against the war.
Similar advice was provided to Arafat by Muhammed Yazid, minister of information in two Algerian wartime governments. He wrote “wipe out the argument that Israel is a small state whose existence is threatened by the Arab States, or the reduction of the Palestinian problem to a question of refugees; instead present the Palestinian struggle as one for liberation like the others. Wipe out the impression that in the struggle between the Palestinians and Zionists, the Zionist is the underdog. Now it is the Arab who is oppressed and victimized in his existence because he is not only facing the Zionists but also world imperialism.”
https://stanfordreview.org/deception-palestinian-nationalism/
None of that matters at all.
