To quote you - how about some unbiased and reputable sources Phoenall? Something from actual historians maybe, not the Christian Broadcasting Network, or some anonymous youtube. This isn't "crunching the numbers" - it's just slamming Islam.
He doesn't need to prove a people/nation/entity existed - YOU do.
I don't have to prove anything.
Historical data shows that the indiginous population of that area comprise a variety of ethnic and religious groups prior to any mass immigrations from either Arab states or Europe. Whatever you choose to call them - they were there.
Which should not be too difficult - if it were the truth, which it isn't. I can easily prove Spain has existed for centuries, there is a lot of information, there is a common language, culture, identity, etc., but THERE IS NONE for the sparse few nomadic arab muslims living in the west bank and gaza, the vast majority of whom immigrated to those areas from the 1910s forward.
There is data from the Ottoman's on the populations in those areas.
The census data shows it, the facts and history on the ground show it - the ******* arab leaders themselves have admitted that the "palestinian" as a concept presenting an arab muslim identity was artificially manufactured to counter the unassailable holocaust-suffering jew by the KGB, arafat and his russian handlers.
The people pre-existed the name. Are you claiming they were non-existent and only Jews inhabited those lands?
YOU are the one claiming that there was a unique, singular, uniform identity of arab muslims living there - tell us what language they spoke, national flag, who formed its government? What were its civic institutions? What was the name of its electrical power company, or its police force? How about its army?
I am claiming that there were people living there, who had lived there for centuries. Are you claiming that only Jews lived there?
The fact of the matter is that large numbers of arab muslims, as is typical for their shit culture of parasites/viruses, saw the jews forming a country and operating farms successfully, so they moved en masse for economic reasons - just like the mexicans/central american filth sneaking into the US - and then once they achieved sufficient mass, decided to take the land/country for themselves, started a genocidal war, and lost. Had that ******* filth won, they would have done what arab muslims have done for 1,400 years; murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
The fact of the matter is people were there, they are now called Palestinians and many of them have a long history there and others are immigrants (not too different from the Jews). They aren't simply going to disappear for the convenience of Israel no matter how desperately you want to disenfranchise them.
YOU need to prove that there was a substantial, singular country made up of arab muslims existing BEFORE 1948 - good luck with that.
Why the **** do I need to prove that? That was never my claim and that is not what we base people's rights on.