主题：给“镭射”的答复 -- 思索

In an interview conducted by The Sunday Times on June 15, 1969, Golda Meir was party to the following exchange:

Q:Do you think the emergence of the Palestinian fighting forces, the Fedayeen, is an important new factor in the Middle East?

A:Important, no. A new factor, yes. There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the first world war and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country from them. They did not exist.

——这个是标准的政治家的语言，她说原先没有所谓巴勒斯坦国或者巴勒斯坦国国民这个说法，只有所谓的叙利亚南部和属于约旦的巴勒斯坦地区，所谓犹太人跑来抢走巴勒斯坦国的土地的说法是错误，原本就没有巴勒斯坦国或者巴勒斯坦国国民这个说法。

“They did not exist.”看你怎么理解，打算往歪理上引可以诬赖她说巴勒斯坦人不存在，按语境上看，人家的意思是“原本就没有巴勒斯坦国或者巴勒斯坦国国民这个说法”。人家很明确的说“their country”和质疑“an independent Palestinian state”，都是在明确这个国家和属民的概念