re: a few questions about the Palestine/Israel situation

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In about 1,000 BC the territory of Palestine was actually a lot larger than just Israel and covered parts of modern day Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and I think Saudi Arabia.

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Wrong, you're thinking of The Levant. Palestine was a term coined by the Romans in the late first century. Prior, the land of "Palestine" was Judea. After the Great Jewish Revolt of the late 1st century, the Romans exiled the defeated Jews from the territory and renamed it. However, the region was never ruled by "Palestinians". It was always a territory of another empire.