President Abbas calls for Palestinian reconciliation -5Jun08

um except that you didnt look up the history books knowing that the Palestinians never owned Palestine. And Palestinians are not a distinct people with a distinct culture or distinct language. And there was never such a REAL and OFFICIAL country named Palestine.

Algeria, Guatamala,Congo and Panama also did not exist as states before they came into existence in the 20th century and none had a language or culture much different from their neighbours. Perhaps Zionists could lay a claim to these countries as well as the "Algerians", "Guatamalens","Congolese" and "Panamanians don't "exist" like "Palestinians" don't "exist"!

The British took control of the region from 1918-1948, after the Ottoman Empire collepsed (after they had control of it from 1516-1918). They had the region under its ownership with a League of Nations Mandate and named the region 'Palestine'. See? Palestine is not even an Arabic name.

The word "Palestine" was used by Josephus to refer to the coastal strip and by Philo a Greek Jew to refer to the Holy Land 2000 years ago! The Arabic form is Falestin there's no P in Arabic.

I have valid resources. would you like to see if u don't believe me?