When was Palestine colonized?

Answer 1

Palestine was and has always been in the Middle East since the Saudi Arabians and Palestine joined forces in 661 CE.

so that proves that Palestine has been here longer than Israel when Palestine gave a portion of its land to Israel in 1946, and they then took over Palestine but we will get it back. ( just a side note)

Answer 2

A:In spite of its long history, there has never been a unified state known as Palestine. Palestine was first used as a name for the southern Levant around 600 BCE, when Greek sailors met the Philistines along the southern coast. Unaware that a different nation existed farther inland, they named the entire region Palestine. However even the Philistines never formed together into a single state, occupying a number of petty city-states. After the Assyrian and Babylonian conquests, Palestine was broken up into a number of provinces under the rule of various empires in the course of time. Unity came with the later Roman occupation, then the Byzantine, Arabian, Turkish and British empires, but not statehood.

The ancient Persians referred to the southern Levant as 'that part of Syria which is called Palestine'. The Romans were also aware of this term but do not seem to have used it until after the Second Roman-Jewish War, when they renamed the province of Judea as Syria-Palestina.

The British used the term Palestinian Mandate loosely but generally for the League of Nations mandate west of the River Jordan, while the mandate east of the Jordan was known as Trans-Jordan.

When the Jews realised that Britain was moving towards granting independence to the Palestinian Mandate on a democratic single-state basis, the Jews began a program of terrorism designed to drive Britain out of Palestine. Britain handed the "problem" over to the United Nations, which initially favoured a division that provided approximately equal shares of the land to each side. After initiating a civil war in which many of the Palestinians fled the future state of Israel or were actually driven out, Israel unilaterally declared independence. Egypt and Jordan were ruled by despotic royal families and Israel was initially able to have those two nation stake claims to the remnants of the territories proposed by the United Nations, thereby forestalling formal recognition of Palestine by the United Nations. With UN recognition, Israel could claim to be an established state, but not so Palestine.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly recognised Palestine as an 'observer state', a relatively meaningless status which Israel, in any case, does not accept.

Answer 3

It's unclear what is meant by "Palestine". The actual land has been in existence for millions of years. The designation of the term "Palestine" to refer to a specific region came about 2000 years ago. The use of the term "Palestine" to refer to a political or administrative unit came into existence less than 100 years ago and the use of the term "Palestine" to refer to an independent Arab State in place of or alongside Israel did not start until 1948.

Answer 4

Palestine was created 2,000 years ago by the Romans. When the Romans conquered the Jewish land, Judea, they wanted to make the Jews mad so they re-named the land Palestine. So Palestine was colonized right when it was created because it was already a country.

Answer 5

Palestine is a piece of land; it was not built.

If you are referring to the Palestinian Government, the Palestinian Authority was declared in absentia in 1988 and dignified with territory in 1993.