By Barry Chamish

There was so much to tell this week. The death of Leah Rabin a year after she publicly demanded a reinvestigation of her husband's murder. The suspicious silence of her two children this year about their father's equally suspicious demise. The dragging out of a beaten, drugged, threatened Yigal Amir to once again confess before the cameras of Channel Two. The use of Channel Two hostess Ilana Dayan as a conduit of disinformation for the Shabak.

And then there was the truth that the media exposed. Hatsofe tore apart the lies in Carmi Gillon's book and wrote that he was covering up his own crimes. The same Hatsofe finally publishing suspicions of Shimon Peres' involvement in Rabin's murder. Tel Aviv Magazine's interview with Eyal Shomroni Cohen, the recently fired attorney for the Shabak provocateur Avishai Raviv, revealing that he had seen the cut 30 seconds of the assassination film and what it revealed, "would shock the nation." Yoav Yitzhaki in Maariv exposing the collaboration between the police, prosecution and Channel One in the destruction of the incriminating Avishai Raviv initiation ceremony film. Marriv's Ratings Magazine exposing Israeli television's coverup of the Rabin murder conspiracy...and more.

But all that has been swept under the carpet by the PLO's murders of innocents.

Two weeks ago, the respected political site Rumors Of War asked me to begin an on-line debate with Arab analysts. I never debate Arabs because I feel their point of view on all matters relevant to me is baseless and prejudiced. I agreed to begin such a debate if I could choose the topic; one, which for once, an Israeli doesn't have to begin with on the defensive. My subject for debate was, Do The Palestinians Deserve A State? After two weeks, no one has bothered to join in the debate. So here are the major points which were never discussed on Rumors Of War:

1. There was never an independent Arab state called Palestine. At best, Palestine was a backwoods Turkish province. Hence, there were no pilgrimages to the "holy" Al Aqsa mosque. Jerusalem is not the third holiest site of Islam. Mecca and Medina are holy, Jerusalem was never mentioned in the same breath until the liberation of the Temple Mount by the Israelis in 1967.

2. The Palestinians and their political leadership bring war and instability to wherever theyreside, be it Jordan, Lebanon or in the very territories Israel recently handed over to them. No one wants them as neighbors because they are too egotistical, hotheaded, selfish and immature o qualify as a responsible nation.

   And no one would sign a meaningful agreement with any Palestinian leader because agreements are always broken. Israel learned the hard way, that the PLO's diplomats have no ethics and lie with impunity. They will always be diplomats of a terror organization, never of a nation, because nations must abide by their commitments.

3. There is no hope of the Palestinians ever honestly electing their leaders. At best, this ragtag collection of Middle Eastern peoples will accept whatever tyrant proves the most inscrutable and leads their tribe after Arafat.

4. The Palestinians send their children to their deaths to make media propaganda points. Real nations care about their young. The PLO and its allied Islamic organizations practise child sacrifice under the guise of martyrdom.

5. The PLO has no morals, national or otherwise. Their sole motivation is to instill hate from one generation to the next.

6. The PLO has brought nothing but misery to its followers. The Palestinians know nothing of the creation of beauty, engage in no serious scholarship, pass nothing of greatness down the ages. Their legacy is purely of destruction.

7. The Palestinian leaders and their factotums are totally corrupt, stealing every penny of public money they can lay their hands on. No one seriously accepts that financial aid will actually reach the people. And no one will make a business investment in the Palestinians because of the payoffs and bribes involved in setting up shop. And for what? A business that will be shut down or destroyed by terrorism and civil war? The PLO's strongarm tactics have brought in just enough protection money to buy arms and pay the militias, but not enough honest funds to initiate a prosperous nation.

8. The PLO and its police torture people they don't like. They execute people without due process of law. Whatever Palestinian courts do exist, none do so to protect the rights of the accused.

9. The PLO will not tolerate free expression and arrest and torture journalists who criticize the regime.

10. The PLO offer no rights to women. Only among its followers in the Christian community, can women receive higher education and responsible jobs.

11. There is no Palestinian language.

12. There is no Palestinian religion.

13. Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran.

14. Mohammed never claimed he was in Jerusalem.

15. The Al Aqsa Mosque and Shrine Of Omar are built atop the ancient Jewish temples.

16. The Jews held sovereignty over Jerusalem for 1300 years; the Arabs, a mere fraction of the time. There was never an Arab Palestinian nationalist movement until 1964.

    The majority of "Palestinians" according to British demographic surveys, arrived in Israel after 1917, seeking economic opportunities.

    No one is offering to compensate the 800,000 Sephardic Jews whose assets were stolen when they were forced out of Arab countries in the 40s and 50s. Israel took in their refugees, the Arabs kept their 500,000 in camps.

17. The Palestinians already have a nation, Jordan. There, the indigenous majority is ruled by Bedouin royalty from Mecca. The Jordanians had control of the West Bank from 1948 to 1967 and never once offered it as a Palestinian state. Why not? The Egyptians held the Gaza Strip for much longer. Why didn't they create a Palestinian state if there were Palestinian people living there?

18. There is no ancient Palestinian history. There are no world renowned Palestinian artists, scientists, not one Palestinian literary masterpiece, no recognizable culture, no inventions... nothing that distinguishes Palestinians as a people.

19. They are neither a unique people, nor a separate people with their own history. The Palestinians do not deserve a nation because they are not a nation. Period.

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