A little history for those wanting to ‘restore Palestine’.
- Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
- Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
All of these millennia of history however pales in relevance to the fact that today (and since 1947), Israel has substantially accomplished establishing a Rights respecting state. About 25% of the residents of Israel proper are Arab Muslim whose Rights are protected under Israeli law. A number of these Muslims serve the IDF.
The Palestinians do not have a right to a state in that area—or any area—because, as an organized group seeking to establish a state, they have made manifestly clear, in both word and deed, that they have no intention of establishing a state to protect individual rights. On the contrary, their intentions are to violate rights—which is what they have been doing as a matter of course for decades.
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