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Yair Netanyahu also claimed the Soviet Union had 'created' the PLO [AFP]
Date of publication: 23 April, 2019
Yair Netanyahu, son of the re-elected Israeli premier, also accused Palestinians of being 'colonisers' who had occupied 'Jewish land'.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's son took to Twitter on Monday night to attack Palestinians, claiming that Palestine has never existed because there is "no P in Arabic", among other excused for Israel's ongoingoccupation of Palestinian land in a long and bizarre thread which ignited anger on social media.
"Hi all the idiots that twist 'Palestine'. There's no such thing! There is even no P in Arabic," tweeted Yair Netanyahu, the 27-year-old son of the recently re-electedIsraeli premier.
"Palestine is name the Romans gave to the land instead if Judea, as a punishment to the Jews for their revolt, 700 years before Mohammad was born."
Palestine is called "Filastin" in Arabic, commonly understood to be an Arabisation of the Roman name for the area, "Palastina", which is derived from Hebrew.
It is not the first time that an Israeli public figure has claimed Palestinians have no nation due to the lack of a "P" in the Arabic alphabet.
An Israeli MP and member of Binyamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party, Anat Berko, made the same claim in 2016,calling Palestine a "borrowed term".
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