States rise and fall all the time.Palestine, and the other new states in the region, came into being without the evolutionary or revolutionary processes of most other countries. Palestine's international borders were defined by post war treaties. Palestinians became Palestinian and citizens of Palestine by international law in 1924 and domestic law in 1925.montelatici, et al,
Well then, we have to consider the issue of longevity.
(COMMENT)How about using the term "native" to a place or territory. This is in contrast from being born and resident elsewhere.
Native is another question.
What we call today,in America as "Native Americans" are actually a composite of three different migrations and the outcome of several wars between tribes. Between 250 BC and 900 AD (known as the Woodland Period), archeological excavations show that intertribal warfare was intense with various tribes attempting to expand their domain. Some tribes completely disappeared; partly as an outcome of intertribal rivalry. Where I live, the Adena and Hopewell Indians were dated to the area as far back as the Paleo-indian Period (13,000 BC to 7,000 BC). But these two (native or indigenous) tribes were largely destroy and assimilated by the Shawnee of the Ohio Valley that did not escape westward. Now are the Shawnee considered Native American since they displaced the Shawnee? (Rhetorical) Of course they are Native Americans. Just as I am indigenous to the area.
It's like pornography and terrorism. I may not be able to legally define them, but I know them when I see them.
The Jews that established Israel in 1948, will soon be (if not already) indigenous to Israel. They've been there for over half a century; and soon there will no longer be any living survivor of the originally immigrants that came to the territory in the time before the establishment of the State. They will have been born there, and they will have grown-up there. The Arab Palestinians are exactly the opposite. Soon there will be no surviving migrants that lived in what is now Israel. There will not have been any remaining members that lived and grew-up in the territory. They will no longer be indigenous to what is now known as the State of Israel.
All peoples have some connection to the first humans that migrated out of Africa. We all came from someplace. And all the original migrants of 50K years ago have been replaced by someone else.
Most Respectfully,
R
Nothing can undo that.
Palestine was still-born.

