There has never been a Palestine, 1919 Arab Congress
From the 1919 Palestine Arab Congress:
“We consider Palestine nothing but part of Arab Syria and it has never been separated from it at any stage. We are tied to it by national, religious, linguistic, moral, economic, and geographic bounds.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Arab_Congress
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.”
Zuheir Mohsen
Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi was a highly respected political figure of the early 20th century, he testified to the Peel Commission, saying “There is no such country [as Palestine]…. Palestine is a term the Zionists invented…. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.”
Palestinian leader of the pro-Syria As-Sa’iqa faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) between 1971 and 1979
“Neither at that juncture, nor before was Palestine a unit of itself.” “In those days the name “Palestine” was never mentioned, nor was the country ever known by it. It was considered as a part of Syria”. From section 3. “Palestine a part of Syria” A statement by the Arab Higher Committee April 1947
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The Arabs living in Judea are largely the descendants of Arabs who conquered and colonized the Levant after the 7th Century, and of the Arabs who moved to the region afterwards, including as recently as the 20th century.
It is why approximately 95% of the Arabs in the Levant have as their predominant language, faith and culture, that which was imported to the region from Arabia through conquest and colonialism.
A crash course on history of PALESTINIAN STATE:
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
20. Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
