It is not really that difficult a concept to grasp. “Palestine” is a region of the world and “Palestine” has never been a state, Arab or otherwise
So if you doubt this cast your eye down this historical list, which is quite exhaustive and historically accurate, and state where you see evidence for a palestine State at any time in history,including since the Arab invasion all those centuries ago:
What, one may ask, was the history of Palestine before 1920? wasn’t it a Palestinian-Arab state since |
the 7th Century? To substantiate the thesis that Palestine never was a state, suffice it to review the |
Palestinian-Arab version of history, from the Arab invasion until WW I. This history, given in the |
is quoted below if full, so that the arguments of “selective |
quoting” and “quoting out of context” cannot be raised. |
638 – Arabs under the Caliph ‘Umar capture Palestine from Byzantines. |
Umayyad caliphs rule Palestine from Damascus. |
from Umayya of Meccan tribe of Quraysh. Construction of Dome of the Rock |
in Jerusalem by Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik (685-705). Construction of al-Aqsa |
mosque in Jerusalem by Caliph al-Walid I (705-715). |
‘Abbasid caliphs rule Palestine from Iraq. |
Dynasty, founded by
Abu al-‘Abbas al-Saffah, who is descended from ‘Abbas, uncle of the |
969 – Fatimid dynasty, claiming descent from the Prophet’s daughter Fatima |
rule Palestine from Egypt. |
caliphs in rivalry to the ‘Abbasids. |
1071 – Saljuqs, originally from Isfahan, capture Jerusalem and parts of |
Palestine, which remains officially within the ‘Abbasid Empire. |
1099-1187 – Crusaders establish the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. |
1187 – Kurdish general Saladin (Salah al-Din who was born in Takrit |
northern Iraq, the birth place of Saddam Hussein too), son of Ayyub, the |
sultan of Mosul, defeats Crusaders at Hittin in northern Palestine and |
The Ayyubid dynasty rules Palestine from Cairo. |
Mamluks succeed Ayyubids, ruling Palestine from Cairo; |
Mongols at Battle of ‘Ayn Jalut near Nazareth. |
1291 – Mamluks capture final Crusader strongholds of Acre and Caesarea. |
Palestine incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with its |
1832-1840 – Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha of Egypt occupies Palestine. Ottomans |
subsequently reassert their rule. |
1876-1877 – Palestinian deputies from Jerusalem attend the first Ottoman |
Parliament in Istanbul, elected under a new Ottoman Constitution. |
1878 – First modern Zionist agricultural settlement of Petach Tiqwa |
established (click here to learn more about Zionist [sic] and its impact |
on the Palestinian people). |
1882-1903 – First wave of 25,000 Zionist immigrants enters Palestine, |
coming mainly from eastern Europe. |
1882 – Baron Edmond de Rothschild of Paris starts financial backing for |
Jewish settlement in Palestine. |
1887-1888 – Palestine divided by Ottomans into the districts (sanjaks) of |
Jerusalem, Nablus, and Acre. The first was attached directly to Istanbul, |
the others to the wilayet of Beirut. |
1896 – Theodor Herzl, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and writer, |
publishes Der Judenstaat, advocating establishment of a Jewish state in |
1896 – Jewish Colonization Association, founded in 1891 in London by |
German Baron Maurice de Hirsch, starts aiding Zionist settlements in |
1897 – First Zionist Congress in Switzerland issues the Basle Program |
calling for the establishment of a “home for the Jewish people in |
Palestine.” It also establishes the World Zionist Organization (WZO) to |
1901 – Jewish National Fund (JNF) set up by fifth Zionist Congress in |
Basle to acquire land for WZO; land acquired by JNF to be inalienably |
Jewish, and exclusively Jewish labor to be employed on it, click here to |
read to Zionist [sic] apartheid & racist quotes. |
1904-1914 – Second wave of about 40,000 Zionist immigrants increases |
Jewish population in Palestine to about 6% of total. Since the inception |
of Zionism in [sic] claimed that Palestinian was an empty country, click |
here to read our rebuttal to this argument. |
1909 – Establishment of the first kibbutz, based exclusively on Jewish |
labor. Tel Aviv founded north of Jaffa. |
1914 – World War I starts. |
What, one may ask, was the history of Palestine before 1920? wasn’t it a Palestinian-Arab state since |
the 7th Century? To substantiate the thesis that Palestine never was a state, suffice it to review the |
Palestinian-Arab version of history, from the Arab invasion until WW I. This history, given in the |
is quoted below if full, so that the arguments of “selective |
quoting” and “quoting out of context” cannot be raised. |
638 – Arabs under the Caliph ‘Umar capture Palestine from Byzantines. |
Umayyad caliphs rule Palestine from Damascus. |
from Umayya of Meccan tribe of Quraysh. Construction of Dome of the Rock |
in Jerusalem by Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik (685-705). Construction of al-Aqsa |
mosque in Jerusalem by Caliph al-Walid I (705-715). |
‘Abbasid caliphs rule Palestine from Iraq. |
Dynasty, founded by
The above historical review is from a very antisemitic site called palestine Remembered. Norland advised to consult the iniquitous “Mission Statement” of said organization and it does not disappoint.
For example a sample is the following:
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