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And Palestine having been a region, there are Palestinian descended people in surrounding countries. For example 50% of Jordan’s current population is descended from West Bank Palestinians, with 2 million current Palestinian refugees.
In 1970, the PLO tried to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy, so if things had gone a different way, Palestine might be where Jordan is now.
The PLO wasn’t the best advert or advocate for the Palestinian diaspora…
Acliff
I mean, no.
Palestine is a region that has existed for thousand of years, but was largely occupied by different empires and leaders, of which the recent period goes Ottoman Empire > British Mandate > UN Partition. The UN partition being post WW2, and is what created the State of Palestine at the same time as creating the State of Israel... but Palestine as a "country"... well we typically mean country in a legal, sovereign, state way... rather than a geographic region. The UK being a country, the British Isles being a region... sure this is confused by the word Palestine being used for both, and further confused by Palestinian people being the historical term for people of all religions who occupied the region of Palestine regardless of who ruled at the time (Palestinian people being a valid term at the same time that referring to them as Ottomans is valid as these are not mutually exclusive).
There's a very long wikipedia page on this stuff ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine ) , but it was covered in secondary school too (at least the state one I went to).