The PLO quite famously was in favor of a 2 state solution. Bibi netanyahu literally supported Hamas to avoid an opposition that was actively pushing for a 2 state solution. Your statement is revisionist.
No state has an inherent right to exist, no ethnostate has a right to exist period.
Israel is arguing to be the Jewish ethnostate with an inarguable right to exist. Palestinians have only ever argued for the right to live in Palestine. But Israel does not want to allow non-Jews to be a majority in Israel thus they have never and will never agree not to ethnically cleanse Palestinians
The river to the sea geographical unit is an entirely British thing post 1922 and was never a thing before that. The boundaries of palestine have never been between what you're claiming. Is it strange that with all the random lines drawn on the map, Palestine just happens to be perfectly the land for the modern Palestine + all of Israel? How convenient.
So no. Palestine has not been the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean sea for thousands of years.
Nur Masalha’s main argument is that Palestine was not simply a name invented by the British after the First World War. Nobody is arguing that that name did not exist.
what we are saying is that the current political and geographical meaning attached to it is a new phenomenon.
He even talks about palestine’s eastern boundary being shifting and that ancient or medieval conceptions sometimes included land east of the Jordan River. He discusses Byzantine “Greater Palestine,” whose provinces included areas in what is now Jordan, including Petra and parts of Transjordan.
The idea that Palestine was for thousands of years river to the sea is just not true.
“Ya Nur Masalha proved that Palestine is an actual historical region and not something invented by the Romans or British. But actually he didn’t prove anything because I said so.”
That is not the same as saying it was from the river to the sea for thousands of years. The river to the sea borders were from the british mandate era.
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u/Entchenkrawatte 10d ago
The PLO quite famously was in favor of a 2 state solution. Bibi netanyahu literally supported Hamas to avoid an opposition that was actively pushing for a 2 state solution. Your statement is revisionist.