Palestinian Activist Thinks Image Of Plant On Coin Means Place Belongs To Plant

Palestine must be ruled by the descendants of those plants, and of course Palestinians are those descendants.

Ramallah, June 23 – An advocate for removing Jewish sovereignty from the Holy Land in favor of an Arab Islamic state, who also believes that the existence of British-issue currency from the Mandate period before Israel declared statehood – currency that features the word “Palestine” – establishes an irrefutable claim on the land, now argues, therefore, that two-thousand-year-old mintages depicting grain, trees, and other agricultural bounty demonstrate unassailable evidence that Palestine must be ruled by the descendants of those plants, and that of course Palestinians are those descendants.

‘Ablah Makhdue, 30, has long adduced British Mandate of Palestine coins with the world “Palestine” on them in three languages – Arabic, English, and Hebrew – as proof that a country called Palestine predates the State of Israel, established in 1948, and that Israel therefore has no legitimacy because it took Palestine’s land. But his discovery of ancient coins stamped with the likenesses of wheat and other produce of the land, such as date palm trees, has forced him to modify the claim of Palestinian precedence: instead of the land belonging to a country called Palestine, as twentieth-century coinage suggests, the ancient currency indicates that the produce possesses title to the land, and that Palestinian Arabs, axiomatically entitled to the place no matter what, must therefore be descended from those original cereal and fruit crops.

“I’ve always known that the argument from pre-state-of-Israel coinage is simplistic,” he acknowledged. “I know it’s really more complicated than that, but the point stands: the coins show what was here first. If that means we have to modify our national claim to fit the older coins, so be it. Changing our national claim of origin and indigeneity is old hat for us: we’re Philistines, no wait we’re Canaanites, no wait we’re divinely-sanctioned rightful Islamic conquerors, no we’re actually the same people the Jews claim to be because we never left and they’re Khazar fakers from Europe. Switching to ‘we’re wheat and dates’ isn’t any more incredible.”

Experts treated Mr. Makhdue’s argument with some caution. “I’m not totally on board with it, not without some elaboration,” explained indigenous Palestinian archaeologist Noura Erekat, whose Bedouin clan boasts they came to the land in the nineteenth century. “I get that the twentieth-century coins aren’t convincing, especially since they also have Hebrew on them, and that the Hebrew includes the initials for ‘Eretz Yisrael,’ ‘the Land of Israel.’ Of course we have to find an older pedigree than that! But the ancient coins also have Hebrew writing and no Arabic, so we might want to argue that they’re just fake.”

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