How was Palestine an item before 1947?
It's no older than 1947?
I'd place it a little earlier. Didn't the Muslims butcher 6 million of them shortly before 1947?
A little bit of history from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_PalestineMandatory Palestine[1] (Arabic: ??????? Filas??n; Hebrew: ??????????????? (?"?) P?l??t?n? (EY), where "EY" indicates "Eretz Yisrael" (Land of Israel)) was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Southern Syria after World War I. British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948. During its existence it was known simply as Palestine, but, in retrospect, as distinguishers, a variety of other names and descriptors including Mandatory or Mandate Palestine, also British Palestine and the British Mandate of Palestine, have been used to refer to it.
The Brits found a population of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Druze....
The conquest of the Ottoman Syria by the British forces in 1917, found a mixed community in the region, with Palestine, the southern part of the Ottoman Syria, containing a mixed population of Muslims, Christians, Jews and Druze. In this period, the Jewish community (Yishuv) in Palestine was divided at the time to the traditional Jewish communities in cities (the Old Yishuv), which had existed for centuries, and the newly established agricultural Zionist communities (the New Yishuv), established since the 1870s. With the establishment of the Mandate, the Jewish community in Palestine formed the Zionist Commission to represent its interests.