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Has Palestine ever existed? [70]
When I started this thread I expected a big reaction, but the reaction I got was much greater than I expected!
This is my opinion.Palestinians are Arabs and not an individual ethnic group.
Jewish people are are religious group and not an individual ethnic group.
The Palestinian Arabs never had a state under their control in the Southern Levant or Canaan.
The Jews, who were descended from the Canaanites did....and in Iron Age times they led two Jewish states in the region, one called Judah and the other called Israel.
Both the Jews and Palestinian or Jordanian Arabs were subject to many invasions over centuries and neither had any control over the region.
But the Arabs and the Jews in the region managed to live peacefully, side by side, even under many occupations for many centuries.
So what happened to change all that?