HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Strongest, Black September Organization, Palestinian National Council
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Two sharply distinct histories occupying the same geographical space: neither israel nor palestine had any actual political or territorial, they are mutually exclusive programs for how the territories should be existence before the 20th century. governed and guarded. The nationalists advocate on each side have developed emotionally and highly elaborate arguments about much deeper histories. Neither israel nor palestine have had any actual territorial existence or politically until the 20th century. In the middle east, there was not separate entity of palestine even though the name had long been in use. It was the name of a roman province and geographers of the 10th century talked about it. Between the 15th century and 1918 palestine formed part of the ottoman empire and blurred its status. As the ottoman empire came apart in 1916 the. British and french governments divided up the potential spoils on the basis of the sykes-picot agreement who were french and british diplomates.
