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From Golda Meir's OpEd in the  NYTimes, January 14, 1976:<ref>

From Golda Meir's OpEd in the  NYTimes, January 14, 1976:<ref>

[https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/oped40/CONFLICTMeir.pdf Published: January 14, 1976] [https://www.aish.com/jw/me/Golda-Meir-on-the-Palestinians.html Aish, Jan 13, 2018, "Golda Meir on the Palestinians,"  Aish, Jan 13, 2018] [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1976/01/22/01/article/33/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1

[https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/oped40/CONFLICTMeir.pdf Published: January 14, 1976] [https://www.aish.com/jw/me/Golda-Meir-on-the-Palestinians.html Aish, Jan 13, 2018, "Golda Meir on the Palestinians,"  Aish, Jan 13, 2018] [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1976/01/22/01/article/33/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1 "Israel and the Palestinians." Golda Meir. The Sentinel⁩⁩, 22 January 1976]</ref>

"Israel and the Palestinians." Golda Meir. The Sentinel⁩⁩, 22 January 1976]</ref>

<blockquote>To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership; for this reason I should like to clarify my position in regard to the Palestinian issue. I have been charged with being rigidly insensitive to the question of the Palestinian Arabs. In evidence of this I am supposed to have said, “There are no Palestinians.” My actual words were: “There is no Palestinian people. There are Palestinian refugees.” The distinction is not semantic. My statement was based on a lifetime of debates with Arab nationalists who vehemently excluded a separatist Palestinian Arab nationalism from their formulations.

<blockquote>To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership; for this reason I should like to clarify my position in regard to the Palestinian issue. I have been charged with being rigidly insensitive to the question of the Palestinian Arabs. In evidence of this I am supposed to have said, “There are no Palestinians.” My actual words were: “There is no Palestinian people. There are Palestinian refugees.” The distinction is not semantic. My statement was based on a lifetime of debates with Arab nationalists who vehemently excluded a separatist Palestinian Arab nationalism from their formulations.