You post very important information, and I will incorporate it into my knowledge base if proven accurate. Can you give me one citation, just off the top of your head to verify this? I believe what you say to be true, but I don’t KNOW it to be. I would like to be able to prove my point if someone jumps on me for these “blasphemous” facts...........Thanks for posting.....
Among many sources and historical document:
http://www.science.co.il/israel-history/Palestine-history.php
If you look at the history of the Palestinian Mandate following World War One, you find most of the Arab countries were created out of the remains of the Ottoman Empire. Many of the Arab countries did not exist as countries per say prior to this. Iran (Persia) and Egypt were the exceptions.
A Jewish remnant has lived in the area since the Romans expelled them from their country in 140 AD. Of course the Arab Muslim want to claim that Jews never lived in Jerusalem, let alone the remainder of Israel.