Palestinians: A State for a People That Doesn’t Even Exist?
When the American writer Mark Twain visited the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the 19th century, he found a largely barren and uninhabited land. At that time, the area was under the control of the Ottoman Empire. To revitalize the wasteland between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the Ottomans settled Muslim migrants from Albania, Bosnia, and the Caucasus in the region. When Egyptian troops occupied the area in the 1840s, more migrants from Egypt joined the existing population. At...
