No, Emma, it did not. Palestine was never a country or a state. It was the name given by the Roman occupation forces to a region they were administering, a region far larger than modern day Israel. There was never an Arab Palestinian king or ruler until Arafat. There was never a separate country called Palestine. The Post WW1 Palestine Mandate in the 20th century was used to create two states, an Arab state, Jordan, and a smaller state, Israel. It has only been in recent times that the discussion about a 'Palestinian state' has emerged, and most people have incorrectly assumed that the Palestinian people are, in fact, a displaced minority, when in fact they are no such thing at all.
