Arab Rulers Have Spent Decades Undermining Palestinian National Aspirations
“The Palestinians are useful to the Arab states as they are.”
May 3, 2022
Arab Rulers Have Spent Decades Undermining Palestinian National Aspirations
“The Palestinians are useful to the Arab states as they are.”
“The Palestinians,” Gamal Abdel Nasser told a Western reporter in the years before the Six-Day War, “are useful to the Arab states as they are. We will always see that they do not become too powerful. Can you imagine yet another nation on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean!” As Roie Yellinek and Assaf Malach demonstrate, this attitude is typical of Arab leaders, who—despite many protestations to the contrary—have over the decades consistently worked against the creation of a Palestinian state. The rulers of Syria and Jordan in this regard proved little different than Nasser:
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