thank you for this "annotation" to the OP; the sentence in the OP "The fact that there is no such entity as the State of Palestine...." is intended so clearly a

thank you for this "annotation" to the OP; the sentence in the OP "The fact that there is no such entity as the State of Palestine...." is intended so clearly as a factual assertion ("The fact that....") that i assumed it must be not just correct but verifiable correct. In fact just the opposite is true.