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When did "Palestine" exist?
Reader comment on item: Not Stealing Palestine but Purchasing Israel
Submitted by adeline (United States), Jun 21, 2011 at 12:51
My history of the Middle East is lax, since I don't really care, but I would argue the point that the British gave up on "Palestine" in 1948. According to my admittedly limited information (which I'm obviously not researching), there never was a Palestine. There were English colonies, French colonies, German colonies, Portuguese colonies across after. But where and when was there a "Palestine?"
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Daniel Pipes replies:
"Palestine" existed under the British mandate, 1923-48,
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