Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)

livefromDC said

I don't know what groups have used it, but do you see the irony? Palestine has been replaced/erased by the state of Israel over this time period.

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That's not entirely true. Palestine was never a formally country/state to begin with. Certainly many Palestinians lived in what is now Israel before that territory was declared Israel in 1948. Prior to that it was a British territory and region was informally called Palestine.

The point of reference we're working from would need to be defined before we start talking about time periods. Are you going back to pre-1948?