Re: has Palestine ever existed ?
India never existed as an independent country untul 1947. Jordan did not ever exist as an independent country until the middle of the 20th Century; East Timor did not exist as an independent country until the early 1970s, even then only briefly. Lebanon never existed as an independent country until the middle of the 1970s.
The absence of a historical country has never been a valid basis for the creation of a new one. Saying that the absence of a historically independent Palestine means that Palestinians o not have the right to call for one is as ridiculous as saying in the lat 18th century that because there was never an independent country in the Americas, Britain’s American colonists should not have been able to call for their land there to become an independent nation.