People think there was never a Palestinian state. This is not correct.

@Roundandroundwego Don't worry, Palestinian history isn't being "erased." At that time they still used the Roman name. That doesn't mean it was an independent Palestinian state. In 1921 it was under the British Mandate and both Jews and Arabs lived there. The Arabs didn't start referring to themselves as "Palestinians" until later. A Jewish resident would have called themselves a "Palestinian" and an Arab would have called themselves "Arab" or "Syrian." Many Arabs from the surrounding countries emigrated to the area at that time and their descendants are the Palestinians of today, along with descendants of people who were already there.

@SW-User the Indians and Hawaii also had no "real" states you could recognize, either. I'm sure you can't be honest.

@Roundandroundwego Hawaii was a monarchy that was functionally no different from European monarchies. Native Americans were organized into groups of varying degrees of complexity. The Iroquois confederation may have influenced the founding fathers in some aspects of the Constitution. The "Five Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast were settled agriculturalists.
Groups further west lived more as hunter-gatherers.

The fact remains that there were no Arabs who referred to themselves as "Palestinians" before the 1920s as a distinct group. Claiming that European Jews invaded an Arab-controlled country because that area was referred to as "Palestine" is profoundly ignorant.

@LeopoldBloom I personally know people who were from Palestine in the 1920s. There's no way to stop you from erasing people. You're like a locomotive running over the past, wiping us out. Nobody can stop deadly people.

@Roundandroundwego I never said there were no people from Palestine in the 1920s. There was a large population of Arabs and Jews living there at the time, along with Druze, Armenians, and others. What I'm trying to do is draw a distinction between the general area historically known as "Palestine" since Roman times, and the modern proposed nation of "Palestine." It's incorrect to say that the independent country of "Palestine" existed since Antiquity just because the Arabs living there now want to use that name. It would be like calling people from Central and South America "Americans" and concluding that those areas are part of the United States because we've appropriated "American" for ourselves.

What you want to erase is any Jewish history from that area because you're opposed to Jewish self-determination in their historic homeland.

@LeopoldBloom the nation is a concept. It has changed repeatedly since Roman times. You definitely want to order people to not exist, and nobody has thus far been able to stop you. It's called "decolonization". We try but you always crush us with your might and lies.

@Roundandroundwego What empire was Israel a colony of?

You don't know what a colony is, do you. You're just parroting "decolonization" because you heard it somewhere.

You're also projecting. You want to order Jews to not exist, but nobody thus far has been able to stop you. It's called antisemitism.