Roudy
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It was owned by the Ottoman Empire for 700 years, and then under the control of the British and French, who divided it as the conquerors. In other words the Arabs had jack to say about what was done to the land.Not at all sure how Palestine never being a "state" helps israel's claim to the land, it wasn't a state either.