There has never been a country called Palestine. Palestine was never a state or a nation.
The widespread idea that the West Bank and Gaza are occupied Palestinian land is a lie! Check out a Middle East map. You will find Palestine listed as a region as it has always been, nut never as a country.
The Jews have occupied the land of Israel continuously for 3,300 years, and they are the only people to have done so. Rome conquered the land of Israel in 70 AD and again in 135, the Romans rebuilt the city and named the region Palestine, after a former enemy of Israel –the philistines. In recognition of that undeniable historic fact, all of “Palestine” was to be given to the Jews for a national homeland by a 1917 ruling the League of Nations. Rich Arabic Oil Countries pressured Britain and steadily the Jews were betrayed by Britain’s administration of the mandate. By 1948, the Jews were finally granted a homeland; 3/4rth of the original land had been parceled out to Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon etc.
Before 1948 the Jew living in that area were called “Palestinians.” The Jerusalem Post was called the “Palestinian Post.” Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, an Arab leader, is quote saying to the Peel Commission in 1936: “There is no such country as Palestine! Palestine is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Palestine is alien to us; it is the Zionists who introduced it.”
The Jews did not displace anyone, because no one permanently resided there. It was a land inhabited by nomadic, Bedouin tribes. The whole region was nothing but deserts and swamps. Only about 12,000 Arabs resided in an area that covered the territories which today are Israel and Jordan. When Mark Twain visited the area, he wrote he found nothing but a wasteland. It was not until after the Jews had changed deserts and swamps into a productive and thriving land that the Arabs started migrating there, looking for jobs. Arafat himself was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. Did you know that?
During the 19 years that that the territories were occupied by the kingdoms of Jordan and Egypt, no one talked about a Palestinian state…not the Arab countries, not the United Nations. Nobody asked Jordan or Egypt to give up their ownership and give it to the Palestinians. No one ever talked about a Palestinian state or a Palestinian people. It never existed. There never was such a thing as a Palestinian state. Palestinians were Arabs living in this region.
Israel did not go to war against a Palestinian state or occupy its land. Israel was the one attacked by 6 Arab countries at once. She defended herself, defeated her attackers, and won the so-called territories from Jordan and Egypt, not from the Palestinians.
Jerusalem never was the capital of any other state but Israel. It was certainly never the capital of a country that never existed. Today, the Muslims are re-writing the Koran to put Jerusalem into their book because it was never in there. The only two holy sites mentioned in the Koran are Mecca and Medina. Today, the Muslims are destroying historical evidence so they can re-write their history books, trying to prove to the world that the Jews never were in Israel.
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