Basic History for the Uninformed:
- Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Crusader Frankish and the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.
- there was the Sassanid-Persian Empire before the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Sassanid-Persian Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire again, not a Palestinian state.
- there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state, before the Byzantine Empire.
- Before the Roman Empire, there was the Jewish Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Jewish Hasmonean state was the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Hellenistic Seleucid empire, there was Alexander the Great’s empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Babylonian Empire, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were not Palestinian states.
- Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
There have been many governments there, but never a Palestine.