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  24. Let's debunk the term "Palestinian" in the first instance. The demographics of the area that comprises modern Israel had a total population of 300,000 people in its entirety and was desolate. Most of the majority Arab population were Bedouin and Druze. At that time, everyone living in that region was called Palestinian including Christians, Muslims and Jews (who maintained a continuous presence prior to and continuing after the Roman expulsion." The term "Palestinian" didn't derive from the existence of a previous sovereign state called Palestine populated by predecessors of modern-day Palestinians because there never was a Palestinian country called Palestine. The only sovereign state that ever existed in the area was Judea. The name "Palestine" was given to this region by the Romans who wanted to eradicate its Judean character after the Bar Kochba revolution. The Jews returned to the land after thousands of years of persecution culminating in the late 19th centuries during the pogroms that took place in the Pale of Russian settlement when Jews began purchasing land in Ottoman Palestine. They began to drain the swamps and irrigate the deserts bringing life back to the land, drawing Arabs from surrounding Arab countries. Moreover, when the English took over the Palestine Mandate, pursuant to the Balfour declaration it allowed Jews to migrate to the area along with Arabs from surrounding states. However, after violence erupted in Palestine, they curtailed Jewish immigration while at the same time allowing hundreds of thousands of Arabs to migrate between the years of 1918-1948. The idea that the Jews occupied a country that had been populated by Palestinian Arabs "for generations" is a MYTH.
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