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Let's go back one further to 1947 where there was no Israel, and it was all Palestine.
by wds 1y ago
Let's go back one further to 1947 where there was no Israel, and it was all Palestine.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> where there was no Israel, and it was all Palestine A British colony. Taken from the Ottomans.
- quickthrowman 1y agoDo you mean the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, administered by the British between 1920-1948 after the Ottoman Empire collapsed? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
- cholantesh 1y agoThey mean the name that has been used for the region for much of human history.
- quickthrowman 1y agoHow is that relevant? Yes, the name Palestine is derived from the Philistines who used to inhabit the area 3500 years ago. The region has been urbanized for 7-9k years and inhabited by many different groups. Jews, Greeks, Romans, Muslims, and I’m sure there’s more. It has an exceedingly complex history.
- cholantesh 1y agoAnd the name _Israel_ is derived from another Bronze Age tribe, from which Zionists draw the legitimacy of their project. Rather a fatuous question.