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The palestinians also did not have a national sense of self untill they were occupied for the better half of a century ... The german national identity needed Napoleon to really take of (and many more work Like that )

And 'mono ethnic states' was bog standart for emerging nationalnstates - it just took some.places longer to create a national state and the according nationalism - hardly anything specific about 'the slavic mind'

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  • What about "Palestinians" "occupied" "under the Turks" for 1200 years during the Ottoman Empire. The Era that immediately pre-dates the 20th century. No national consciousness to speak of for centuries when ruled by non-arab Turks who still consider Arabs to be lesser than Turks. Add a few non-muslim European-ish Jews to the land and suddenly Palis have a national consciousness where they never had one before? It seems to be forgotten that BOTH sides- Israeli AND Palestinians walked away from the UN plan in 1948. I guess they wanted to settle it themselves, out in the streets. Well, now after 80 years we see who is winning. It's not fair to cry foul now. Both sides gave up that option back in 1948.

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