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Source: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/27/the-palestinians-jew-free-history/
The Palestinians' Jew-Free History
(FrontPageMagazine) Dennis Prager - Earlier this month in Ramallah, I interviewed Ghassan Khatib, director of government media for the Palestinian Authority, and the spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. I asked him: Do the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state? There is no Jewish people, he told me, so how could there be a Jewish country? In other words, Palestinians, a national group that never existed by that name until well into the twentieth century, deny the existence of the oldest continuous nation in the world, dating back over 3,000 years. Indeed, the Palestinians deny that the Jews ever lived in Israel.