
Originally Posted by
jon1959
Nonsense question, as you know.
There has never been a time in history where there was a state, a political entity, called Palestine. There has been a land called Palestine for millennia, and people who have lived in that land. They were indigenous from the time of the Canaanites, they came from the same ethnic stock as the early Jewish tribes and they were incomers from Arabia up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire.
The point being that the Palestinian Arabs who are subject to Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing have lived in that land for many, many centuries. The people who are driving them out, starving them and bombing them are (with very few exceptions) not historically from that land - the biggest groups are from the USA, Russia and Poland.
Post Mandate Palestine was supposed to be divided into a settler Israeli state and a Palestinian state in 1947-48. Only one state was created - Israel - and since that time it has been expanding across the neighbouring Palestinian land in a drive to achieve the Greater Israel that is the objective of political Zionism. Political Zionism is a racist ideology rooted in a literal belief in Old Testament texts - just what you carpet bomb this board with every day!
There should be a Palestinian state as part of a two state 'solution' or else a single liberal-democratic Israeli-Palestinian state with equal rights for all, because that is the position of the United Nations and it is the aspiration of a people without autonomy or equal rights.
The constant attempts to deny Palestinians their identity and their future because their land has been under occupation for most of their history is disgraceful. There is no history of Palestinian states, but there is a long and continuous history of Palestinian people!