I'm sure you all have friends who are asking questions, you can send them this :
1. Before the modern state of Israel there was the British lamic mamluk sultanate of Egypt, 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 Islaluk sultanate of Egypt there was the ayyubid dynasty, Not a Palestinian state .Godfrey of bouillon conquered it in 1099.
4. Before the Islamic mammandate, Not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the ayyubid dynasty there was the christian kingdom of Jerusalem, Not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the christian kingdom of Jerusalem there was the Fatimid caliphate, Not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Fatimid caliphate there was the byzantine empire, Not a Palestinian state.
Before the byzantine empire there was the Roman empire, Not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Roman empire there was the hasmonean dynasty, Not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the hasmonean dynasty there was the Seleucid empire,Not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Seleucid empire there was the empire of Alexander the 3rd of Macedon, Not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the empire of Alexander the 3rd of Macedon there was the Persian empire, Not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Persian empire there was the Babylonian empire, Not a Palestinian state.
14. Before the Babylonian empire there was the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, Not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the kingdoms of Israel and Judea there was the kingdom of Israel, Not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the kingdom of Israel there was the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel, Not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel there was the individual state of Canaan, Not a Palestinian state.
But then of course doesn’t this severely weaken any sort of unique historical claim Jewish people may have to the land? And without a unique historical claim, European Jewish settlers were/are essentially just colonizers. No, because there are consequences to war. The British took control of the land from the Ottoman Empire (who were helping Hitler) and gave it to the Jewish people. God, who created all the earth, specifically gave this land to His chosen people, Israel. Numerous passages of scripture discuss the giving of the Promised Land, but here is a good article with many of the Bible references. https://www.gotquestions.org/Israel-land.html...
In fact in this corner of the earth there was everything but a Palestinian state!
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