What about the Caanites who lived in the region before the Hebrew god awarded title to the Hebrews.
I think I am descended from them.
I want to assert my ownership.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

So pete what about our farmers. How are you going to compensate them?

A query for Prompete: Are there any references to the input the Palestinians had into adopting the international laws that

* gave their homeland to the Ottoman Empire to own and occupy
* recognised Ottoman ownership
* placed the territory under British mandate
* transferred the territory to Jordanian ownership
* accepted Jordan relinquishing ownership and allowing Israel to occupy the territory
* disallowed the territory thus occupied being described as occupied territory ?

Cannot find any reference to 'Palestinians' having input to any of the above machinations. Also, cannot find any reference to a 'Palestinian people' (pre 1948) at all. I stand to be corrected on that tho. I inderstand the 'Palestinian People' as such, were, untill very recently, groups of tribal/nomadic Arabs with diverse affiliations primarily associated with tribes and families. As I say, I am open to reference to any literature documenting a delineation of the 'Palestinian People'. Are those Arab peoples who fled war and upheaval in 1948 and now resident in other Nation States Palestinians or Jordanian, Syrians, Lebanese etc?

Our farmers are a resilient lot, exports are likely to resume and increase to Indonesia in the near future. Droughts, floods and fire they negotiate, a tantrum from a few middle eastern despots are not going to drive them to the wall I think. Anyway, think of the up side for the 'ban live export' crowd.

With respect to Brian Wimborne of Quadrant 7th Jun 2014:

"The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a “distinct Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism."

Cont.

The above statement made in 1977 by Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive committee member, during an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw: