In my last programme I ended with the rather depressing note that the Jordanians, even though they‘d conquered a part of the lands that formed the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 didn’t hand them over to the proud Muslim Palestinian people for their homeland. They clung onto those lands for 18 years until the Israelis retook them in the 1967 Six Day War. What’s more no voice was raised anywhere in protest by or on behalf of the Palestinian people to return this land to them. 

In fact the Jordanians stripped the West Bank bare of anything and everything that it had that was worth taking. When 18 years later the Israelis took it back in the 1967 Six Day War the entire Arab world, as if woken from a dream, realised that this was part of that precious ancient Muslim country of Palestine whose peoples were again being denied their birthright by those vile Jews.

I also mentioned that Egypt had conquered another sacred part of the country of Palestine, Gaza. I left you wondering whether the Egyptians had honourably given that land to the poor Muslim Palestinians as a down payment on their homeland. Well I ran out of time and couldn’t answer that for you – not then anyway.

To be honest I could have told you that the Egyptians clung tenaciously to it, just like the Jordanians had to the West Bank, and only parted with it when it was taken off them by the Israelis in the Six Day War. Again, as for the West Bank, the Palestinians didn’t mind that their sacred country, well a part of it, hadn’t been handed over to them. In fact the Palestinians Muslims don’t mind who else has their country unless they’re Jews. So this claim to a Palestinian state looks a bit dodgy to me.

While the Jordanians stripped the West Bank bare, the Egyptians certainly had their moment in their treatment of the Muslim Palestinians too. I’ll tell you about that and then I’m going to start on the investigation to find out where these Muslim Palestinians came from, if they hadn’t lived there from time immemorial as they all claim to have.

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