It is about time the peculiar and artificial situation created for and by the Palestinians – who prior to 1964 did not even maintain that nomenclature – in regard to notion of refugee status (since 1948), origins and statehood, is seen for what it is: manufactured and shaped to suit a propaganda that has seduced the world. Let us go back to basics. Do they wish to exist beside Israel as a neighbouring country (yet to be proclaimed and accepted by international law, not the vicarious wishes of separate country states) instead of a warring, tribal people wishing the exclusion of a sovereign state, Israel? If so, well and good. If not, there will have to be Israeli defence built-in to any ongoing territorial arrangements. That the ‘international community’ does not understand this, or is not interested in this, is a problem. But at the end of the day that is Israel’s reality. The so-called ‘occupied territory’ is disputed territory and has been since 1948, because the Palestinians won’t accept the UN designated territories mapped out for Israel and the Arab peoples at the time.