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If you ask Palestinians or the 95% of the world's countries that recognize them, yes they did form a country. It's simply pretending they're nationless nomads floating on uninhabited land to make yourself feel better. The Israelis and religious Americans simply choose to ignore their sovereignty because they desire to see a large Israeli state. If you take the religious nuttery out of it you see two ethnic populations fighting over the same land that need to learn to coexist.
France doesn't, the UK doesn't, Spain doesn't, Germany doesn't, Italy doesn't, Canada doesn't, Australia doesn't, the US doesn't.
Where did you bring that 95% figure from? Probably the same place where you brought the rest of your "alt-facts" from.
It is again a meaningless recognition, only though a peace agreement can they actually get lands to form a state of their own for the first time in history (as they've never had one before, not 100 years ago not 50 years ago and not now - a fact). If Morocco declares that they consider the lands (and East Jerusalem too, that even the UN partition plan rejected by the Arab aggressors didn't include as a part of the Palestinian state) to be Palestinian it doesn't mean anything, no more than it would mean if these lands were in Canada for that point.
And of course this has nothing to do with religion, most Israeli Jews are secular, the claim is historical - it's the homeland of the Jewish people as a people just as Japan is for the Japanese or the Netherlands are to the Dutch.
Rejecting history and embracing ignorance is unhelpful.