That wasn`t the point.
I was letting our friend who,no doubt believes the jewish myth that Palestine has been empty for over a thousand years waiting for the return of the jews that the opposite is true.
“By contrast, al-Umar’s state in Palestine was sovereign in substance and reality,”doesn`t sound like a land without a people to me.
“south Lebanon along the entire Palestinian coast to Gaza”.
How does that translate to South Syria,no Palestine?