I have in the past been critical of Mr Singer for his single minded pathological avoidance of the word 'Palestinian' always extending it to 'Palestinian Arabs'. Indeed I had examined the over 20,000 words he had written on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict only to find just 6 occasions when he used the word unemcumbered.

What is a little disturbing is to find this terminology seemingly being adopted by more august Israeli institutions like the the one that conducted the study Mr Singer refers to, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

The study's director Prof. Shifra Sagy, from the Conflict Management and Resolution Program at the university, “noted that those who stayed in their villages and became citizens of Israel referred to themselves as ’48 Palestinians, and those who either fled or were forced out and came to live in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank as ’67 Palestinians.”

But it appears she would have none of that and reverts to the following terminology “We asked Arabs of ’48 about their narrative, which is that they were loyal to their land when they didn’t desert it and stayed. The ’67 people look at the same issue, and they say the ’48 Arabs stayed on their land because they gave up and succumbed to the occupation without any resistance,”

It is insidious and deeply disturbing that the revisionism that Mr Singer utilises should be seemly so blithely taken up by Prof. Sagy. Both groups in the study clearly identify themselves as Palestinians but Singer and it would seem the Professor are intent on stripping this identity from them.

Further moves to disappear a people that need to be stridently resisted.

#To csteele

You persist with your nonsensical claims instead of answering these eight questions - the first two of which relate directly to your last post:

1. "Do you know the term "Palestinians" does not include Jews,non-Arab Christians and any other secular non- Arab citizens?

2. If you do - how can you object to my use of the term "Palestinian Arabs" to clarify and identify who the "Palestinians" are?"

3. Do you consider the following article 20 of the PLO Charter to be racist?

"The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them, are deemed null and void. Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood. Judaism, being a religion, is not an independent nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single nation with an identity of its own; they are citizens of the states to which they belong."

4. What is the area that is controlled by the PLO or Hamas or the Palestinian Authority that "harbours" 500000 Jews and what rights have been conferred on those 500000 Jews by the Palestinian Arabs?

5. What is the area of the State of Palestine?

6. Who is the current Prime Minister of Palestine?

7. What is the capitol of Palestine?

8. If there is a state of Palestine - why are the Palestinian Arabs still claiming to be stateless and homeless?"

After carefully reading 20000 words of mine - isn't it about time you answered the 200 or so set out in the above questions?

Have you got any further in proving your conspiracy theories?