The Story of Palestine Free from the River to the Sea:
In Dec. 1973, Egyptian president Sadat realized that the Arabs could never defeat Israel militarily (after their success in the 1973 war that was reversed). Saudi Arabia also understood that it couldn't twist West's arm economically through the oil boycott, which it ended in March 1974. The two Arab powers decided to sue for peace with #Israel and accept Israel's 1967 proposal of land-for-peace: Israel implements UNSC 242 by withdrawing to Armistice Line as it stood on June 4, 1967. Egypt and Syria would get their territory back, Palestinians would build their state on West Bank and Gaza.
Instigated by crazy radicals like Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, and Syria's Assad, Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) met in Cairo in 1974, declared opposition to a final settlement per 242, said will take 1967 territory to build a Palestinian state, from which they would continue the struggle until they "fulfilled the liberation of all the Palestinian soil as a first step toward total Arab unity" (i.e. 22 states merging into one).
This PLO statement publicized the phrase "All the Palestinian Soil," which was hard to chant in rallies, so the protesters came up with an equivalent: From water to water, Palestine [will always be] Arab. On posters, the two slogans merged into "All the #Palestinian Soil, From the River to the Sea." These slogan mean the totaly elimination of Israel and its replacement with an Arab Palestine that merges into the Great Arab State (wishful thinking).
The most famous "All Palestinian Soil" was drawn as a cartoon by caricaturist Naji Al-Ali, a hand writing the word Palestine with a bullet on top of "All the National Soil."
From the River to the Sea has ONE meaning only: Destroy Israel and replace it by Palestine. If you say otherwise, you either don't know or know and lie.
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