sleepysaf on Nostr: Neither Israel nor Palestine existed before 1948 (in the same way that the Russian ...

Neither Israel nor Palestine existed before 1948 (in the same way that the Russian Federation did not exist until 1991). The Palestine mentioned is the British-owned "Mandatory Palestine" before it was partitioned by the UN. In 1948, Mandatory Palestine essentially ceased to exist, and of the two sides of the partition, only Israel gained Western recognition.