Before that it was the ottoman empire, they conquered it and kept control over the jews and arabs They didnt tolerate any problems from jews or arabs.
How come there was no talk of an independant state of palestine then?
Because they were just Arabs and Jews.
They are all the same people anyway, Its just a bung fight over which religion has control.
"They were descendants of a core population that lived in the area since prehistoric times. And in a recent study of 1371 men from around the world, geneticist Michael Hammer of the University of Arizona in Tucson found thatthe Y chromosome in Middle Eastern Arabs was almost indistinguishable from that of Jews.