In the history of mankind, there is no evidence that there has ever been a Palestinian state. Even the Palestinians themselves admit that there has never been a king for the Palestinian people, not even a Palestinian prime minister, not a Palestinian state president, not even a Palestinian currency or any evidence that they ever had a state under their management or control over their own territory as a people.
Since they never had a state, why are people around the world protesting and shouting – “Free Palestine”?
Apparently they just don’t know this fact! A fact about which there is no historical debate
The slogan that ran around the world today – “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free”, for many Palestinians, this statement represents the “right of return” and a longing for a unified independent Palestinian state that includes Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with the vision being – without a Jewish state. It’s just that the longings they often express are for a country, government or independence that they never had at any point in the history of mankind.
As of today, in some of the territories of Judea and Samaria there is autonomy under the control of the Palestinian Authority, which was established following the Oslo Accords signed in the 1990s between the State of Israel and Fatah and since then, the Palestinian Authority is officially in charge of managing the autonomy of its residents, while in the Gaza Strip Hamas has been in control since June 2007, after being expelled by force the Palestinian Authority and the Fatah people
Although they have never had their own state, the Palestinians claim their right to own the Land of Israel on the grounds that their people lived in the Land of Israel before the establishment of the State of Israel.
Every year, they mark “Nakba Day” – the Palestinian “disaster” of the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel.
However, history, and before it the Bible, abounds with archaeological and written evidence about Jewish life and rule in the Land of Israel.
The history of the people of Israel in the Land of Israel is very rich in records of the people of Israel in the Land of Israel:
The religions – Muslim, Christian and Jewish recognize the three fathers from Genesis – Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. together with the four mothers. According to the Bible – God promises our father Abraham the Promised Land – “I am the Lord who brought you out of the light of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
In the following, the great leader Moshe Rabbnu is described, how he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, brought the tablets of the covenant to the people of Israel and led them to the entrance of the Land of Israel. The successor of Moses, Joshua ben Nun who brought the people of Israel into the Land of Israel to establish a homeland.
In the Bible it is described (with archeological evidence) how the tribes of Israel formed into one kingdom in the Land of Israel over which King Saul reigned first (who reigned for at least 10 years), followed by King David and King Solomon who reigned over Israel for about 80 years (each of them 40 years). In the Bible there are 42 kings of Israel and Judah who each reigned between 1 year and 55 years.
The Kingdom of Israel consisted of several dynasties, with the House of David dynasty not ending until the loss of independence and exile in Babylon.
The Bible praises leaders like the judge Gideon ben Yoash, the prophetess Deborah who was also a judge, the hero Samson who was a judge and a monk of God.
The Bible tells the story of the prophet Samuel, the prophet Elijah and the 12 prophets, which include Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. And of course there are many other leaders and heroes that the people of Israel have had for generations throughout ancient history.
The first temple stood for about four hundred and ten years until it was set on fire in 586 BC, in the month of Av, by Nebuzaradan, the army minister of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who conquered Jerusalem and destroyed it. The destruction of the house ended the first house period. During the Babylonian exile, the Temple ceased to serve as a spiritual home for the Jews. The temple vessels were looted and taken to Babylon.
Even in later periods, in the years 64-136 AD , even though the Jewish population was under the control of different empires and even though a variety of ethnic groups lived in the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel was under Jewish rule throughout most of the Second Temple period until the Judean revolts in Rome.
During the rebellions, the Romans made several moves in an attempt to disconnect the Jews from Israel, such as expelling most of the Jews from different areas of Israel, and especially from the Jerusalem area. After this period, the Jews became a minority in most areas of the Land of Israel, with the exception of the Galilee region. This period is engraved in the modern collective memory of the Jewish people as the beginning of the period of the Jewish exile, but during this period significant Jewish activity was still taking place in the Galilee region such as the renewal of the Sanhedrin and the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud.
And where was the Palestinian people?
The first attempt to establish a Palestinian state happened in September 1948. In response to the declaration of independence of the State of Israel, earlier, in May 1948.
The Arab League established in Gaza the government of all Palestine under the presidency of Haj Amin al-Husseini. The following month, the government of all Palestine announced the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. But in practice, this government had no authority or independence, or territory, and it was subordinated to the Egyptian government.
Palestinian nationalism actually developed in the 20th century , as a response to Zionism and the British occupation.
As mentioned, there has never been a Palestinian state at any point in history. The historical reference to Palestine, as a defined group, emerges only in 1920, with the gathering of the first Palestinian Congress and the establishment of the “Supreme Arab Executive Committee” headed by Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1921, and the “Government of All Palestine”, which was the first organization of an establishment that spoke on behalf of Palestine.
All of Palestine has been defined in history as a “puppet government” established in the Gaza Strip in September 1948, by some of the Arabs of Palestine who aspired to the recognition of their own national state that is not dependent on or subordinate to the Kingdom of Jordan.
All of Palestine existed for about a decade as an attempt by Arab countries led by Egypt to bring about a solution to the Palestinian problem, and was canceled in 1959. Its president was Haj Amin Al Husseini.
Palestinian state in Jordan
In 1949, the King of Jordan, Abdullah I, decided to annex the territories conquered by the Jordanian Legion in the war and granted citizenship to all Palestinian refugees with the aim of integrating them into the Kingdom of Jordan. This decision was contrary to the position of Haj Amin al-Husseini, his political opponent, who sought to establish an independent Palestinian state. Abdullah granted full citizenship to the Palestinians in his country and also insisted on the right of return, arguing that a mass return of refugees would create a permanent point of tension between Israel and Arab countries. His grandson, Hussein, King of Jordan, stated many times that “Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan” and that “Jordan in its two parts is the homeland of every Palestinian.”
Throughout Palestinian history, until the establishment of the “Palestinian Authority” in the Oslo Accords, in 1994, all Palestinian organizations had only one goal – resistance and struggles mainly against the Zionists.
After the occupation of the Land of Israel in the First World War and the establishment of the British Mandate, the name “Palestine” was determined for the Land of Israel and its inhabitants, who received the citizenship of the Land of Israel, were called “Palestinians”.
The Arabs of the Land of Israel were called “Palestinian Arabs” and the Jews of the Land of Israel were called “Palestinian Jews”. However, the Arabs of the Land of Israel at that time usually called themselves “Arabs” and not “Palestinians”, and their most prominent institutions, the Arab Executive Committee and the Supreme Arab Committee, founded in 1936, used the term “Arab” rather than the term “Palestinian”.
For the first time the Palestinians governed themselves:
Yasser Arafat, was the first leader of the Palestinian people, and on February 3, 1969, he was elected chairman of the executive committee of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), which mainly engaged in terrorist activities, until the Oslo Accords (1994), in which he promised to lay down his arms and became president of the Palestinian Authority. Thus, for the first time in history, an institutionalized Palestinian entity arose that dealt with managing and normalizing the lives of the Palestinians independently. An arrangement that continues continuously from then until today.
