since you said it, if the palestinian arabs cannot have their own homeland within israel (i suppose that includes the west bank, gaza and the golan), where is it going to be?
Dummy, Arabs first began calling themselves "Palestinians" in the late 1960s.
There is no ethnic, religious or cultural group in history called Palestinians.
For most of the last 500 years, Arabs in Palestine were Syrian, since the territory was viewed by Arabs as southern Syria.
For this reason, France urgently wanted Palestine for their Syrian Mandate.
It was the Jews, not Arabs, who pressed for Palestine for a homeland.
Arabs received 99.9% of the Ottoman Empire after its collapse in WW I, comprised of nearly 30 homeland/countries.
Arabs in the Levant received 4 homeland/countries in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan. Jordan is 75% Palestinian.
Eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis edifies...
For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable...For Muslims it was alien and irrelevan The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole [Syria]. Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries; it was a group of provincial subdivisions, by no means always the same, within a larger entity. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.
Dr. Lewis further edifies there was no distinction between Syrians and Arabs in Palestine/southern Syria...
At first, the country of which Palestine was a part was felt to be Syria. In Ottoman times, that is, immediately before the coming of the British, Palestine had indeed been a part of a larger Syrian whole from which it was in no way distinguished whether by language, culture, education, administration, political allegiance, or any other significant respect. The dividing line between British-mandated Palestine and French-mandated Syria-Lebanon was an entirely new one and for the people of the area was wholly artificial. It was therefore natural that the nationalist leadership when it first appeared should think in Syrian terms and describe Palestine as southern Syria.
Source: [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Shaping-Modern-Middle-East/dp/0195072820/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275007784&sr=1-23]Amazon.com: The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (9780195072822): BernardÂ…[/ame]
See, dummy, you're less of a dummy, but, you're still a dummy.