Wednesday, May 25, 2016 The Palestine Hoax Posted by Daniel Greenfield 150 years ago, Mark Twain visited Muslim-occupied Israel and wrote of unpeopled deserts and mounds of barrenness, of forlorn and untenanted cities. Palestine is desolate, he concluded. One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings. The same is true of the Palestinian Museum which opened with much fanfare and one slight problem.