Yes, as Newt Gingrich said, acknowledging the elephant in the room, the Palestinians are an invented people.  And yes, as Barry Rubin and Rick Moran acknowledged that's not as important as   What's important is whether a large portion of the people in question believes that they are a people. (Rubin) I know what Newt was getting at - that there has never been a "Palestinian state" nor were the Arab people referred to who lived in the British protectorate until Israeli independence called "Palestinians" exclusively. But Dr. Rubin has nailed it; it doesn't matter what we think as much as what the Palestinians themselves believe. You must deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. (Moran) So now, let's take the above information, "the world as it is" a step further and ask why the leaders of the Muslim Arabs invented the mythical Palestinian people?  Answering in 1977 is expert Zuheir Mohsen, described  in Wikipedia as   a...(Read Full Post)