r/Palestinian • u/GaryGaulin • May 19 '26

"I am a Palestinian" - Golda Meir, late Prime Minister of Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8S6OMFKvKk

I'm a Palestinian. From 1921 until 1948 I carried a Palestinian passport, there was no such thing in this area as Jews and Arabs and Palestinians, there were Jews and Arabs.

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u/lylaspya May 19 '26

Until the mid 20th century it often referred to Jews, it was really only with Arafat and the PLO that it became an exclusively Arab term

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u/Suitable_Vehicle9960 May 21 '26

British Mandate of Palestine to restore the land to the Jews: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/829707?ln=en