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Originally Posted by blankall
Edit: Also, before the Ottoman Empire was torn apart, there were no borders or individual countries. People could move freely between areas. So the line between being Palestinian and Egyptian or Jodanian is pretty artificial to begin with.
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Looks like those Ottoman's had it figured out before the Brits messed it up... again.
I wonder what that area would look like if Ottoman rule had persisted, with their general passivity / apathy to internal ethnic groups (provided all taxes were paid and you remembered who was boss). It definitely wouldn't be engineered as it is now, but I'm still curious what the outcome would be.