Most of the above posts were copied from research on the internet, not my personal comments i.e. your reference to “independent”...
Whether you accept it or not, Palestine has never been a country or a nation...
You do know the difference between a “state” and a “nation”, don’t you???
Tennessee is a “state”, not a “nation”...
United States of America is a “nation”, not a “state”...
And, as I said once before, an “area” is known as “Palestine”, just as an “area” in known as “Appalachia”.
Neither is known as a state or country or nation...
I don’t understand what your problem is with seeing this...
state and nation have often been used synonymously.
You are using one example, the US to show Palestine was a state like the US. The romans didn’t use that concept. There was no United States of Rome.
here’s a simple way to unravel the ball of twine in which you have entailed yourself. If the romans called it palestine, and they were in charge, then it was palestine. So your comment that there was no palestine is just historically and logically inaccurate.
There are other historical references to Palestine before and after Christ, if you want to refresh your research.