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war following Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser's expulsion of
United Nations buffer troops from
the Sinai and other preparations for
war.
Israel struck first, and when the
Jordanian army opened fire in the area
of Jerusalem, the Israeli forces respond-
ed and captured the West Bank. This
territory was not annexed (except for
the parrs of ancient Jerusalem that con-
tained the ancient Jewish sacred sites)
and continues to be disputed land,
under international law.
After Arab leaders declared that
they would never negotiate a peace
treaty with Israel, state-owned lands
that Jordan inherited from the
British in 1948, and that Israel cap-
tured from Jordan in 1967, were
opened for Jewish settlement.
Throughout this period, there was
no mention of Palestinian "territory"
or the concept of a Palestinian state.
The term "Palestinian" first appeared
in the mid-1960s; it gained currency
in the decade following the 1967 war.
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As this brief history demonstrates,
the claims that settlements are illegal
and the entire concept of
"Palestinian occupied territory" are
based on a biased political agenda.
The pro-Arab majority in the United
Nations repeated the mythology at
every opportunity; like other well
publicized and financed advertising
campaigns, the slogan gained in pop-
ularity and acceptance, even in Israel.
The campaign culminated in the
1993 Oslo agreement, which created
the foundations for a Palestinian state
as the cornerstone of a settlement of
the conflict. Had this been
Palestinian Authority leader Yasser
Arafat's goal, he would have achieved
it during last year's Camp David
summit.
However, Arafat's blanket rejection
of the Israeli proposals, and the effort
to flood Israel with Arab "refugees,"
demonstrated that his goal continues
to be the destruction of Israel, and
not the creation of an independent
state.
Nevertheless, the myths are repeat-
ed around the world, allowing the
terrorism in the name of Palestine to
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