Have you heard the one about the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sitting down to negotiate dividing up the Land? “Let me begin with a biblical tale,” says Sharon. “Before the Israelites came to the Promised Land and settled here, Moses led them for 40 years through the desert. One day, miraculously, a stream appeared. They drank and then decided to bathe. When Moses came out of the water, he found all his clothes missing. ‘Who took my clothes?’ Moses asked. ‘It was the Palestinians,’ replied the Israelites.”
“Wait a minute,” interrupted Arafat. “There were no Palestinians during the time of Moses!” “All right,” smirked Sharon, “now that we’ve got that settled, let’s start talking!”
This old joke which produced a lot of laughs over the years now appears on the Facebook page of the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party, but with a wacky twist. The Fatah version...
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