Stylin, are you saying you believe Palestinians had their own land? If so you should read this article.
The Forgotten History of the Term "Palestine"
"It is widely thought, as reflected in my 1976 New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, that the term Palestine refers only to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Countless books and maps say that Israel, in conquering the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six-Day War, took control of “all of Palestine.” But that is not correct."
"The term “Palestine” was used for millennia without a precise geographic definition. That’s not uncommon—think of “Transcaucasus” or “Midwest.” No precise definition existed for Palestine because none was required. Since the Roman era, the name lacked political significance. No nation ever had that name."
"The term was meaningful to Christians as synonymous with the Holy Land. It was meaningful to Jews as synonymous with Eretz Yisrael, which is Hebrew for the Land of Israel. As noted by the Palestinian scholar Muhammad Y."
https://www.hudson.org/node/44363#:~:text=No%20nation%20ever%20had%20that,the%20Palestinian%20scholar%20Muhammad%20Y.
I understood that the Romans called the area Palestine (after the Philistines) to rile the Jews after one of the emperors (Constantine?)became Christian and it spread through the Roman Empire. From what I understand, it is the land of Canaan, a land that God gave to Abraham. Jews, and later Christians had lived there ever since.
There never was such a thing as Palestinians, at least from what I understand. It was just a geographical area, not a specific group of ethnicity.
I’m no scholar, so I may be way off, and don’t mind saying so.
I didn’t say that. I don’t know what to think. I don’t disagree or agree with you.
I remember as a little kid in catholic school, earliest 55-58-ish; that palestine was a place on the map and nobody questioned it... and that was only a few years after the fact.
The Balfour letter specifically mentions palestine twice and puts what became Israel, as it was establish at the time, in a specific place in palestine.
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
‘His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.’
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour
Over time, palestine was no longer on the map...
The question: if Israel was for the jews and was carved out of palestine, who\what were those that weren’t Jews and lived in the area known as Palestine ?
Like i said...I don’t know what to think.