That's a flag for propaganda.

Here is map, at a very pro-Israel site which identifies [link|http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/ottomap.html|Palestine Under Turkish Rule: 1517-1917]. So, for 400 years there was a Palestine, but there never were or are any Palestinians?

Why are you so hung up on what people call or don't call themselves? Names come and go. There used to be a [link|http://peace.expoarchive.com/6465/international/intpav43.shtml|United Arab Republic], I went to their pavilion at the World's Fair in NYC in the 1960's. No such place now and the name is available for re-use. How long have people called the Israelis been around?

Look, [link|http://howardbloom.net/jericho.htm|Jericho is the oldest city] in the world. It is the first place were man decided to quit hunting and gathering and to both domesticate animals and cultivate grain. That goes back to 8000 BCE well before the Hebrew invasion of around 1300 BCE.

The nomadic Bedouins preceded the Hebrews as well. But let's not talk about their effect on the ecology. :)

So, back off and allow others to have a claim as well.