Comments by "Eliza Dolittle" (@ElizaDolittle) on "Corey Gil-Shuster" channel.

  1.  @tombuddy100  Palestine was never a country - After the Romans kicked the Jews out of their ancestral land they renamed it Palestine; it became a "region" that was up for grabs for whichever kingdom won control of it by way of war. There was never a Palestinian nation; never a Palestinian people. Over the course of 2,000 years, all people who settled in Palestine came from surrounding countries and became subjects of whichever ruler controlled it at the time (the Romans, the Byzantines, several Islamic kingdoms, the Ottomans, the British). The people living there never, ever, ever called themselves Palestinians because there was no Palestinian country. They referred to themselves as Romans, Byzantines, Persians or Arabs or Egyptians, etc. - wherever they came from. Over the course of history, the people who settled there were pagan, Christian, Islamic, etc. A Palestinian national identity wasn't born until 1948 after Israel became a nation. The Palestinian national identity came about even though - at the time - there STILL was no Palestinian country. This is precisely the reason why the people in the video can't answer the question. The only well-known Palestinian people happened in the 20th century when Palestine did become a nation. But just so you know, the Palestinians are NOT Arab - there are Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Christians and up until 1967 there were even Palestinian Jews living in Palestine. Palestine became a country in 1988.
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  2. ​ @tonyabrown7796  The last I heard, the State of Palestine is a partially recognized sovereign state. It's currently classified as a "non-member observer state" by the United Nations - like Vatican City. By "Palestine" they are referring to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. 138 out of 193 UN members recognize Palestine as a country.
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  3. The Jews in Israel are threatened with extermination by Palestine and other Arab nations.
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  4.  @H.G689  When it comes to Palestine - the Romans kicked the Jews out of their land and renamed it Palestine. In that moment, it became a virtually EMPTY territory that was up for grabs by any kingdom who won control of it by way of war. Over the course of history the people who moved in to settle there were pagan Romans, Byzantine Christians, Islamic people, etc. etc., - they came from various countries in the surrounding regions - and they lived there as subjects of whichever ruler controlled it at the time. Over nearly 2000 years there were many kingdoms who controlled it. But there was never any such thing in history as an independent "Palestinian country" and, as a consequence, no such thing as a "Palestinian people." It was a region - a province - a territory - a piece of land with no independent, sovereign governing power. The people who moved there never, ever, ever referred to themselves as Palestinians because there was no such thing as a self-governed country called "Palestine." Furthermore, between 1517 and 1918, the Ottoman Turks controlled it, but they lost control to the Brits at the end of WWI. It was the Brits who invited the Jews to return to what - at the time - was BRITISH TERRITORY. The Jews didn't just waltz in - they needed permission and they got it. They are not occupiers and neither was anyone else living there, but the Arabs refused to live alongside the Jews. That's when the problems began and in 1948 the land was partitioned between the two groups. Israel immediately created a constitution and became a sovereign nation. Palestine didn't officially become a country until 1988 because for decades they rejected the partition of land - that was NEVER theirs to begin with!
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  5. ​@user-hv5so6qz9z After the Romans kicked the Jews out of their ancestral land they renamed it Palestine and from that moment on it became a piece of land, a territory, a province - that was up for grabs for whichever foreign kingdom won control of it by way of war - from the Romans, to the Byzantines, to the Egyptians, to the Fatimids, to the Ottomans and many more. Palestine had Arabs, Christians, Jews, and others living in it who ALL became subjects of whichever kingdom controlled it at the time. Palestine NEVER belonged to the people who lived there - the people NEVER governed their own land. They never even tried to seize control from the empires by way of revolution. Over the centuries the people living there never even called themselves Palestinians. When the Brits controlled Palestine after WWI they essentially invited Jews to resettle on what was technically at that time in history British land. Jewish resettlement was NOT illegal occupation and anyone who thinks it was is as misguided as the people in the video.
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