FACT CHECK · LAND AND RULE, 1919
Claim: "Palestine is nothing but southern Syria" (UN, 1956)
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Ahmad Shukeiri at the UN, 31 May 1956: "Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." In 1919 the Palestine Arab Congress had called it part of Arab Syria.
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