The Palestine Post was founded in 1932. In 1911 an Arabic-language newspaper, Filasteen, was established in Jaffa by two Greek Orthodox Palestinian nephews - Isa Daoud Isa & Yusef al Isa. The newspaper was opposed to Zionist immigration and did advocate for Arab nationalism. Filasteen described its readers as "Palestinians". ;-)
There is virtually no historical trace of any ancient Israeli kingdom. No mention in the records of the the Egyptians,the Persians,the Greeks or the Armenians. No ruins. Compare what we have of the Greek and Roman civilizations; or the Persian Empire; compare our historical knowledge of even minor states such as the Kingdoms of Armenia,of Axum,and the Himyarite jewish kingdom.
Why are there records of these minor entities yet nothing of any "Israeli" kingdom in Palestine? The answer: if it had existed,others would have noted it. It would have been on the major trade routes. It would have been impossible to ignore. There would be ruins of once fabulous buildings of every kind. Instead we find nothing. All the excavations show the same thing: in Palestine the Hebrews were a small city-state based in what became known as Judea and it's inhabitants as Jews. They were never a majority and they did not engender any worthwhile semblance of a culture. And even these hill people were probably from Yemen which is probably their real point of origin; a northward migration into Palestine from Yemen would explain a great deal that is otherwise unexplainable, most obviously the conversion of large numbers of Ethiopians to Judaism.
Palestine had established borders throughout the Ottoman period and elected representatives to the Ottoman Parliament. To say because they existed as a province not a nation this means it was up for grabs is like saying the Jews of Boston can declare Massachusetts a Jewish State on grounds that It Was Never A Country In It's Own Right. You could say that of any province of any state of earth with rare exceptions like Texas or Bavaria.
All ancient maps show Palestine; they rarely bother to note tiny Judea,which Was Never A Country In It's Own Right;,just a Roman province and before that a Persian province and before that an Egyptian province...
The only evidence out there is the zionist colonial movement.
Scholars agree that the predominantly Muslim and Christian Arab population of Palestine before World War I did not consider themselves part of a distinctly Palestinian national group. There is evidence, however, that the people living in what is today Israel, Gaza and the West Bank had a regional identity. Until the thirteenth century, the Muslims referred to Judea, Sumaria and the adjacent coastal region (part of modern day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza) as Filastin
The Arab Mufti Khayr al-Din al-Ramli dating from the seventeenth century, on many occasions, “mentions the concepts Filastin, biladuna (our country), al-Sham (Syria), Misr (Egypt) and disyar (country). And his conclusion is that educated Palestinians, even in the seventeenth century, were in fact conscious of living in a territorial region called “Palestine” that was separate from, even if it constituted a part of, “greater Syria.”
Although Palestine was not its own administrative unit in the Ottoman state, the Turks proposed unifying Palestine into a single political province in 1830, 1840 and 1872, but feared the measure would assist European colonial interests. The boundaries envisaged where similar to those of the eventual British Mandate.
The history of the Palestinian people begins with the 1834 revolt against Egypt’s governor and occupier of most of Palestine, Ibrahim Pasha. This largely populist uprising brought together disparate and dispersed Bedouins, rural sheikhs, urban notables, mountain fellaheen and Jerusalem religious figures of Palestine against the invading forces of Ibrahim. Moreover, European penetration in the mid-nineteenth century, both its bureaucratic advances and demand for locally produced products, lies at the embryo of the Palestinian national identity.
Economic, religious and cultural practices further bound the Arabs of Palestine. Cities were often integrated with their adjacent hinterlands, such as Galilee farmers were to Nazareth. Local cultural practices, such as the Nabi Musa pilgrimage which enjoyed participation from Southern, Central and Northern Palestine, provided a sense of collective identification for the Muslims in the area. Additionally, the Christian and Muslim Arabs were likely cognizant of living in a unique region due to their religious scriptures.
Still, the Arab peoples of Palestine prior to World War I would not have considered themselves part of a Palestinian nation and therefore did not advocate for Palestinian self-determination. This would quickly change, however, beginning in the late 1910s.
During the First Palestinian Congress from January-February 1919, the delegation opted for unity with Syria. Most scholars agree, however, that this was an ephemeral political maneuver rather than the chief object of struggle for the Palestinians.
The first occasion on which the Palestinian Arabs demanded a national government was at the Third Palestinian Arab Congress convened in Haifa on 13 December 1920. Over a period of seven days and nine sessions, the delegates gathered from the cities of Haifa, Jerusalem, Lydda, Ramla, Tiberias, Safad, Nazareth, Acre, Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus, and the organizations of the National Club Association of Christian Youth, the Association of Muslim Youth, a geographically diverse assembly.In the first session, the group agreed to three foundational principles: the establishment of a national government, the rejection of the idea of a Jewish National Home, and the organization of the Palestinian Arab nationalist movement. In a later session, they would demand “a national government responsible to a representative assembly, whose members would be chosen from the Arabic-speaking people who have been inhabiting Palestine until the outbreak of the War”
There would be a total of nine Palestinian Arab Congresses by 1929, all of which would support the idea of establishing an independent Palestinian state. During the Mandate period more than forty Arab political associations emerged, with a total membership of over 3,000. Internal disputes, however, would plague the efficacy of the Palestinian political agenda throughout the Mandate period, especially during the 1920s. Still, the community would demonstrate considerable unity.
In 1921, the newspaper Suriyya al-Janubiyya published an article by Hajj Amin al-Husayni, who would later become the Mufti of Jerusalem, which called for the Arabs to take a lesson from the people long dispersed and disliked, with no place to call their homeland, but who nevertheless decided to regain their glory after twenty centuries of exile, despair and oppression. While the article purports to address all Arabs, the author makes a number of comments indicating his target audience is Palestinians. For example, he writes, “you can see others with far less than yourselves trying to build their house on the ruins of yours”
Although al-Husayni does not explicitly mention the Jews or Zionists in the article, the references are undeniable. He is tacitly calling for the Arabs of Palestine to consider themselves in terms similar to their Jewish counterparts, as a nation that needs to establish political control in its homeland.An article written by Hajj Amin al-Husayni in January 1920 of the same newspaper expressed this feeling in classic nationalist rhetoric:
Palestine, oh stage of the Prophets and source of great men; Palestine oh sister of the gardens of paradise; Palestine, oh Ka’ba of hopes and sources of fulfillment; Palestine, oh beloved of millions of people; Palestine, oh lord of lands and pride or worshippers; Palestine, oh source of happiness and spring of purity; Palestine, my country and the country of my forefathers and ancestors; Palestine, only in you do I have pride, and only for you am I ashamed; Palestine, oh maiden of nations and desired of peoples; Palestine, my honor, my glory, my life, my pride.
Unbelievably how much facts you can find in the history books of a "people who have not existed"
So in your own words: you should check your facts more often!
Nations are dynamic constructs. As Kimmerling and Migdal note, “the making of a people is not a volcanic experience, coming out of a singular, critical moment…It is, rather, a long process, with all sorts of reversals and changes of direction, marked by continuing struggle against others, particularly powerful others, and internal struggles among contending groups”
Back to school my friend. All the facts are there if you go back in history and not just believe in the Zionist fairy tales.