(Not really, but I wanted to demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to throw that one around, CarolC.)

Oh, nerd, I've had as bad as that and worse thrown at me in the many threads of this sort here in the Mudcat. I've become used to it. In fact, I almost expect it.

Right now, I have only small increments of time to be online. Just enough to respond to clever little quips like that one at the top of this post, but not enough to do the kind of work it's going to take me to thoroughly answer your other points.

I will answer this one now, though...

But in re-reading your posts I discovered the truth: you have merely re-defined Palestinian to mean "the people who live in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem." Sorry, that's not what "Palestinian" means. Jordan is in Palestine and its people are mostly Palestinians.

The people who call themselves Palestinians are the ones I have described, and the refugees from the area that is now called Israel and the Occupied territories, who are currently living in other coutries. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.

Obviously it's a complicated thing to sort out, but here's an example of what I'm talking about:

Website called World Religions and Cultures

"Many Palestinians, while holding Jordanian citizenship, consider themselves Palestinians first, resenting being called Jordanians (Culturgrams)."