The Making Of Palestine

Today’s information environment is flooded with the same inversion the KGB perfected decades ago. Tucker Carlson platforms Elizabeth Lane. Scott Ritter and Dugin-aligned voices recycle the narrative. Russia’s long game against the West and against Israel is not ancient history. It is still running.

The architecture was built in Moscow. The Palestinian identity was one of its most successful products. And the methods have barely changed.

“The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people.”  

— Zuheir Mohsen, senior PLO leader, 1977.

That single admission should have ended the debate. It did not. Because the identity was never organic. It was engineered.

Most people trace today’s anti-Israel rage to the Nazis and radical Islamists. That partnership was real. But it was not the decisive one.

The Soviet Union ran a longer, colder, more systematic campaign. Its goal was not just the destruction of the Jewish state. It was the destruction of the West, with the Jewish people as the permanent scapegoat and the United States as the ultimate target.

The Russian Revolution supercharged an ancient blood libel: the claim of a secret Jewish cabal controlling governments, banks, and the fate of nations.

The Bolsheviks used it. Stalin used it. The Nazis used it. After 1945 the Soviets refined it into a global weapon of political warfare.

Stalin’s security organs — the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, and later the KGB — perfected mass surveillance, purges, and foreign infiltration on a scale the world had never seen.

They flooded Germany with agents. They penetrated Operation Paperclip. They compromised the Gehlen Organization. They placed agents inside the early CIA and British intelligence. By 1945 the Soviets had hundreds of sources inside the American government and nuclear program.

Stalin initially hoped a socialist Israel could become a Soviet foothold in the Middle East. When Israel refused to become a satellite and joined the British and French in the 1956 Suez campaign, Moscow turned permanently hostile.

Support shifted to the Arab dictatorships. Weapons, training, and ideology followed. The goal became clear: turn the entire Islamic world against Israel and the United States by weaponizing hatred of Jews.

The KGB called this work “active measures.” Front groups. Disinformation. Provocations. Fabricated history.

One early campaign, Operation ZARATHUSTRA, staged antisemitic attacks in West Germany so the Soviets could claim a Nazi revival and keep Germany disarmed. Another, Operation SEAT 12, tried to brand Pope Pius XII as “Hitler’s Pope” to undermine the Catholic Church’s moral authority against communism.

The decisive operation was SIG.

SIG is the Russian acronym for “Zionist Governments.” Designed in the late 1950s and fully activated after the 1967 war, it was the KGB’s long-term plan to poison the Islamic world against Jews and against America.

Yuri Andropov, the KGB chief who later ruled the Soviet Union, drove it.

His instruction was explicit: instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world and turn that hatred into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States.

The methods were methodical.

Thousands of agents of influence — doctors, engineers, professors, and technicians — were trained and sent into the Arab world. Arabic translations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were mass-distributed.

Propaganda films and books portrayed Zionism as racism, imperialism, and a continuation of Nazism. Holocaust inversion was born: Israelis as the new Nazis.

The PLO itself was a Soviet creation.

The KGB drafted the Palestinian National Charter. It selected the members of the PLO council. It trained Yasser Arafat at its special-operations school in Balashikha outside Moscow. Andropov personally directed that Arafat’s ideology be reshaped into pure anti-Zionism.

Arafat’s “personal hero,” chosen for him by the Soviets, was the Nazi collaborator Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini.

After Arafat, the KGB cultivated Mahmoud Abbas.

Abbas studied in Moscow. His dissertation claimed a secret relationship between Nazism and Zionism and argued that Jewish behavior, not antisemitism, caused the Holocaust. He has never fully abandoned those positions.

The leadership of the Palestinian national movement was not chosen by the people it claimed to represent. It was selected and shaped in Moscow.

The greatest achievement of Operation SIG was the invention of a new people.

Before the mid-20th century the Arabs of the region largely identified as part of Greater Syria or as Muslims under Ottoman rule. The distinct “Palestinian people” was constructed for tactical reasons: to claim exclusive indigenous rights to the land, to erase Jewish historical and religious connection, and to reframe Jewish self-determination as colonial aggression.

The techniques perfected then remain the standard operating system today.

Repeat the big lie until it becomes common knowledge. Blame the victim for defending himself. Hijack emotion with images of suffering while omitting the context of the attack. Turn every Israeli action into “aggression” and every Palestinian act of violence into “resistance.”

The firehose of falsehood never stopped. It simply changed platforms.

The result is visible everywhere.

United Nations resolutions. NGO reports. Campus chants. Social media storms. The systematic inversion of history in which the only Middle Eastern people with continuous national, linguistic, religious, and cultural ties to the land for three thousand years are cast as foreign settlers, while a 20th-century political construct is treated as eternal and sacred.

Zuheir Mohsen said the quiet part out loud in 1977.

The identity was tactical. The statehood demand was a weapon. The goal was the continuation of the struggle against Israel and, behind it, against the West.

The Soviets built the architecture. The propaganda still runs on the original blueprint.

When institutions refuse to enforce truth against a lie this large and this persistent, the social contract is already broken. Self-preservation becomes the only remaining law.