Who are the Palestinians?

When I was in High School, a huge news story was about the State of Israel coming into existence and the ensuing resistance by the Arab states surrounding this tiny nation of a people who were returning from dispersion around the world several centuries prior. Having grown up during the second great war my generation had came to relish world news and most were accustomed to closely following world events. For better or worse, that habit has been a vital part of my life leading me to observe world events as they relate to Biblical prophecy and to myself as a Christian living in the end times both literally and physically. Looking back, I am amazed at the developments in the land of "Palestine" over the past 69 years. I never would never have believed what has transpired had I not seen it myself. I urge my children and grandchildren to learn the facts, few of which are found in the current media and most curricula.

For me, the single most disturbing event was the manifestation of the term "Palestinian". As a teenager, I had never heard that term. Today one can hardly get through a day without hearing or reading it. It came into being in 1948. A new people suddenly appeared. I find it best stated here:

"It was only after the Jews re-inhabited their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria, that the myth of an Arab Palestinian nation was created and marketed worldwide. Jews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. "Palestinians" are Arabs indistinguishable from Arabs throughout the Middle East. The great majority of Arabs in greater Palestine and Israel share the same culture, language and religion.

Much of the Arab population in this area actually migrated into Israel and Judea and Samaria from the surrounding Arab countries in the past 100 years. The rebirth of Israel was accompanied by economic prosperity for the region. Arabs migrated to this area to find employment and enjoy the higher standard of living. In documents not more than hundred years, the area is described as a scarcely populated region. Jews by far were the majority in Jerusalem over the small Arab minority. Until the Oslo agreement the major source of income for Arab residents was employment in the Israeli sector. To this day, many Arabs try to migrate into Israel with various deceptions to become a citizen of Israel."            

http://www.science.co.il/israel-history/Palestine-history.php

Another quote:

Identity of the so-called Palestinians

Palestinians are the newest of all the peoples on the face of the Earth, and began to exist in a single day by a kind of supernatural phenomenon that is unique in the whole history of mankind, as it is witnessed by Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist that acknowledged the lie he was fighting for and the truth he was fighting against:

“Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?”
“We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum, but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians - they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag”.
“When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out”.     

http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm

And another:

Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad", 1867 

"There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel, Galilea); not for thirty miles in either direction... One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings. For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee... Nazareth is forlorn... Jericho lies a mouldering ruin... Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation... untenanted by any living creature... A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds... a silent, mournful expanse... a desolation... We never saw a human being on the whole route... Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil had almost deserted the country... Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes... desolate and unlovely...".

I believe Israel has a destiny ordained by GOD and feel excitement observing some of it.