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

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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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