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His answers were "The people living in Palestine were Palestinians and have lived there for many many generations." Then he said: "Unlike Israel, the people had been there for generations." referring to Iraq, Iran and Arabia. Contradict himself much?
Even so, that doesn't answer my question. My question was "What is a Palestinian?" You can't just live someplace and all of a sudden the entire country belongs to you.
There must be leadership, a government, an official language, an official currency. If Palestine, since the Roman Empire re-named Israel, has only existed as extensions of other governments and never existed as its own government, then Palestine never existed as a separate, individual country as the Arabs who are living there now claim to make it out to be.
However, if, and this is the information I'm trying to get out of Sunni, Palestine DID exist for even hundreds of years under its own self rule, had its own official language, its own official people.. then THOSE are the people who belong there. The only time, in the past 4,000 years, that area of land has ever done that, was under the Kingdom of Eretz Yisrael and the new nation-state of Israel. Both times the people were of Jewish origins and descent, the official language was Hebrew, the currency before and now is Shekel and Israel has had several kings before the Romans conquered it and has had several Prime Ministers after the creation of the nation-state of Israel.
I cannot just hop onto an island and declare the island a country. There are international standards and definitions as to what defines a country. And being a sattelite province of an empire is NOT one of them.
so then the nation of israel ceased to exist about 164 BC when the romans moved in and then was magically resurrected in 1948?
sure thing, pal.