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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (102822)6/25/2003 4:58:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Nadine is the one who keeps saying that there was no nation of Palestine, which is a bogus bit of rhetorical jiu-jitsu. The Ottomans ruled it, so it wasn't a sovereign nation, that's true, but it was still Palestine. The Romans named it Palestine 2000 years ago.

Read the 1920 article you posted, CB. It speaks of a "Syrian province of Palestine". There was never a nation of Palestine, not from 135 CE, when the Romans deported most of the inhabitants of Judea and renamed the province Syria Palestina, until 1948, except for 200 years of the Crusader Kingdom.

To the Arabs, Palestine was province of Southern Syria. If you had asked the Arab inhabitant in 1920 what country they lived in, the answer would have been "Syria." It was the non-Arabs, Crusaders and Jews - as the Arabs keep saying - who saw Palestine as a country.
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