You don't know much about this conflict, do you?
Palestine was a self sufficient country until Israel stole, bombed, or bulldozed the vast majority of its economic infrastructure.
Palestine was a country? When?
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The Avalon Project : The Palestine Mandate
OH, about then.
Tinny...
You guys (pro-Palestinian side) really and truly crack me up, when you start leaning so hard upon the use of Descriptor A or B to outline Old Palestine, and to pretend that such a verbiage ipso facto rendered Palestine a 'nation' in a Real World setting...
The use of the phrase 'country' or 'nation' by itself does not ipso facto render a region or territory or parcel of land into an actual polity; in this case, a nation-state...
With no identifiable holistic all-of-Old-Palestine ownership or sovereignty extant nor internationally recognized at the time of the mandate, and with no autonomous self-governance nor charter nor incorporation nor diplomatic credentials nor national standing at the time...
The use of the word 'country' may easily and rightfully and defensibly be construed as '
the unincorporated and unchartered and externally governed region of land known loosely and colloquially as Palestine'.
'
Country' is much shorter than '
the unincorporated and unchartered and externally governed region of land known loosely and colloquially as Palestine' - don't you think?
Your side has been trying to sell that old canard for 66 years now, and you haven't even made a dent in global public opinion, beyond the domain of Islam, in order to bring the rest of Mankind over to your viewpoint.
After 66 years, comes a time when the Grown-Ups concede that the canard just isn't sell-able.
Oh... and... by the way... the very first reference to Palestine in that document describes it merely as the '
territory of Palestine' formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire.
Words don't make a country... money and brains and balls make a country... along with enough force and victories on the battlefield to win and sustain a new country.
The Jews were smart enough and courageous enough to make their National Home within the boundaries of Old Palestine, as was intended all along.
The Palestinian Muslims were not smart enough nor courageous enough to make their National Home within the boundaries of Old Palestine, as was intended all along.
Had the Palestinian Muslims tended to their own Nation-Building rather than trying to interfere with the Other Guys, and had their Arab-Muslim neighbors not tried to interfere with the Other Guys, the Palestinians would not have been living in shitholes for the past 66 years.
But... it was their choice... and that choice had consequences... no Do-Overs allowed at this late juncture.
And all the dusted-over, rusted-over, crusted-over, molded-over Old Legal Standings and pleadings and interpretations and spin-doctoring in the world isn't going to change that now.
You're (metaphorically) swinging after the bell, and much of the rest of the world is getting a good belly-laugh over it.