When the PLO's founder said Palestine was "Southern Syria"

Captain Allen on X uncovered this gem from 1956:

Only eight years later, Shukairy would change his tune as the first head of the PLO:

This was of course the conference where the PLO issued its first charter - the one that said the borders of "Palestine" excluded the West Bank and Gaza. 

Shukairy is in the light colored coat; the poster behind him separates "Palestine" from the other lands it was not claiming with the word "We Shall Return" in Arabic.

At any rate, when Shuairy said that Israel was just southern Palestine in1956, Abba Eban and his diplomatic team responded with their usual wit:

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