…The problem is that the verbal construct “the Palestinians” has sort occupied our categories of thought, Dr. Shimon Samuels does not realize how even as he complains in these four sentences about the dispossession of the Jewish narrative, three times he refers to “the Palestinians” which is the foundational lie of the whole enterprise. It is an amazing fact, I think, of the contemporary world and Jewish history that there are millions of people today who call themselves and are called “Palestinians,” when there is nothing Palestinian about them. They do not speak the indigenous language of Palestine which is Hebrew. They speak a foreign language, Arabic, whose provenance is the Arabian Peninsula to which they pray five times daily, toward Mecca, as surely as Jews pray in the direction of Jerusalem.

But as thieves, their ethical universe operates on the principle of “what’s mine is mine and what’s your is mine too.” It is not enough for the seed of Ishmael to be content with Mecca and Medina and a territorial spread over 21 states larger in area than the United States. They must also have Jerusalem and Eretz Yisrael. Without it they feel deprived. An injustice has been done to them that is so great one can understand the occasional eruption of righteous anger in the person of 17 year wild ass of an Arab make with a knife who stabs a sleeping Jewish girl to death.

While Shimon Samuels is absolutely right that the Palestinian narrative is replacement theology, but he does not realize how he helps it along by calling these people Palestinians…