> Palestinian lands There's very intentional ambiguity in this wording, which obfuscates the reality. “Palestine” was a historical name given to this land afte

> Palestinian lands There's very intentional ambiguity in this wording, which obfuscates the reality. “Palestine” was a historical name given to this land after suppression of Jewish revolt, but there has been no state or nation of “Palestine” and no people who have been calling themselves “palestinians” — until Jews started building themselves a home in a sparsely populated and underdeveloped corner of Ottoman empire in the late 19th century. Then, and until late 1960s, the word Palestine became synonymous with “Jewish Zionist state”, and word “Palestinian” only meant one thing: Israeli jew. Only after the 6 day war, when surrounding Arab states realised that they can't destroy Israel, “Palestinian” national project was born and this word started meaning something different. Some could argue that this means that Palestinian nation is made up, but IMO that's okay: all nations are made up, some are just later than others. However, I can't understand how anyone can say that Israel can be built on “palestinian” land when the whole concept of “Palestine” as “Arab nation” is 20 years younger than Israel.