As reported by MEMRI TV, Arab media and social networks are up in arms over Kuwaiti writer Abdullah Al-Hadlaq who said in a recent television interview that Israel was an independent and legitimate sovereign state and that there was no occupation, but instead,

“a people returning to its promised land…

Like it or not, Israel is an independent sovereign state. It exists, and it has a seat at the United Nations, and most peace-loving and democratic countries recognize it. The group of states that do not recognize Israel are the countries of tyranny and oppression…

From the religious perspective, Quranic verse 5:21 proves that the Israelites have the right to the Holy Land. Allah says: ‘When Moses said to his people… Oh my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you.’ So Allah assigned that land to them, and they did not plunder it. The plundering entity is whoever was there before the arrival of the Israelites. Therefore, I do not go for obsolete slogans and terms like ‘Zionist plundering entity,’ and so on. The fact that I am an Arab should by no means prevent me from recognizing Israel. I recognize Israel as a state and as a fact of reality, without denying my Arab identity and affiliation…

There is no occupation. There is a people returning to its promised land… we Muslims must acknowledge that the Israelites have a right to that land, and that they have not plundered it…When the State of Israel was established in 1948, there was no state called ‘Palestine.’…

The Persian regime boasts that it has occupied four Arab capitals, and that it will soon occupy the fifth. Has Israel ever said such a thing? Has it boasted about occupying anything? No, because it never occupied anything. Israel came to its own land, whereas the Iranian Persian entity is a plunderer.”

• Watch the Video on MEMRI : November 19, 2017
• Read the Transcript on MEMRI : November 19, 2017

FACT: Prior to 1964, the ‘Palestinian’ flag did not exist as known today, precisely because there never was a nation-state by that name.  The Palestinian flag was hastily created by the PLO terrorist organization by taking the Jordanian flag and removing the seven-pointed white star from it’s red triangular field. As evidenced by numerous historical texts, the flag which was identified as representing the area once known as Palestine had an evenly divided field of light blue and white with a gold Star of David in it’s center.