I nearly stopped reading right here:
“Historically, starting with the Greeks, the term “Palestine” has been applied to the entire region that is now modern-day Israel and the State of Palestine.”
There is no “state” of Palestine!!!!
If the point of the article is to try minimize any rights of the Israelis by highlighting the different populations that at one time or another inhabited Palestine, there is a modern set of factual circumstances that gives legitimacy to the Israelis.
The crowd chanting “from the river to the sea”, which means the extermination of Israel, seeks to claim that all the “Arabs” of Palestine are the only ones with any “national” rights there, that the Jews are ONLY colonists, as if none of the Arabs are. But factually that is not true. During the British Mandate of Palestine the population grew by colonists - from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and elsewhere, and by Jewish settlers too. I expect only a minority of “Palestinians” today can trace their ancestry to “Palestine” prior to the British Mandate of Palestine. But no matter, to the Arabs, the Jews do not belong there.
What is now known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra started as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. It's only more recently that "Palestine" was considered exclusively Arab/Muslim.
Uh, yeah. Show us where it was.
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No, I believe the entire proper chant goes, “From the River Euphrates to the sea, Solomon’s Kingdom again will be.” I think we learned it that way in Vacation Bible School.