Interesting backgroud on the Middle East...

I was watching a documentary on the Middle East in the years after WWI and one thing that struck me was that a commission (British I think, but I might be remembering wrongly) went through the area interviewing the people and found that over 80% of the Muslims living in what we'd now consider Palestine considered themselves to be Syrians back around 1920 and wanted their land to be a part of a Greater Syria.

No big news about that, I guess -- I just thought it was kind of interesting.

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FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays · M

Over the years there has been an emerging Palestinian identity.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays Evidently. It was interesting seeing all the different groups/nationalities fighting each other and the British and French and Russians at the time, nations appearing and disappearing in months sometimes.