The Arabs in Israel, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are misnamed “Palestinians,” thanks to the propaganda of the Soviet Union, which founded the “Palestine Liberation Organization” (P.L.O.) in Egypt in 1964. “Palestinian” has always been synonymous with “Jew” since the Roman Emperor Hadrian changed the name of Judea to Palestina in 135 A.D. Since that time, the name “Palestine” was synonymous with “Land of the Jews” or “the Holy Land,” which is why the Zionists wanted the “Palestinian Mandate.”
The area (not country or political unit) known as “Palestine” (in the Ottoman Empire) before Zionist Jews came at the end of the nineteenth century, was sparsely populated except in Jerusalem by Jews and barren. Since Mark Twain’s description of it as well as those of other travelers. See the discussion in Joan Peters, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL
The notion that Jews could have settled elsewhere like Britain and Russia is laughable. No country was willing to admit Jews fleeing Hitler, during World War II, or after. The Displaced Persons camps were mainly camps of Jews unable to go elsewhere until Israel was established and brought them in. Russia had pogroms and dreadful laws applying to Jews, so that 90 % were near starvation in the 1880s.
