Am I mirage? I'm one of those people you say they were nothing.
Ok I know I said I was gone, but I didn't quite get out the door yet and I saw this. I didn't say there was no people, I said there was no nation. Show me a nation. Name it, show me its government.
There was Greece, Rome, the remnants of Rome, Islamic Caliphates, Crusaders, Islamic Caliphates (again), Ottoman-Turks, Brittish and then ... Israel.
edit, ok Going back I see the language "never a people" in my previous post, and I appologize for that being mis spoken by my part. I did not mean that there were no people there, or that the people there had no rights. What I meant was there was never a group of people with sovereign freedom. "The Holy Land" (so as not to call it either Palestine or Israel) has been a land owned by a succession of dynasties, the last of which gave control to the Israelis. It is that simple. There was never a
self-governing group of people in this area since the Israel of antiquity is what I was trying to say.