Original sentence: Even before the end of Ottoman administration, Palestine, rather than the Ottoman Empire, was considered by some Palestinians to be their country.In his book, Palestinian Identity:The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, Rashid Khalidi argues that the archaeological strata that denote the history of Palestine - encompassing the biblical, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, Fatimid, Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods - form part of the identity of the modern-day Palestinian people, as they have come to understand it over the last century
Edited sentence: Even before the end of Ottoman administration, Palestine, rather than the Ottoman Empire, was considered by the Palestinians to be their country.In his book, Palestinian Identity:The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, Rashid Khalidi notes how the archaeological strata that denote the history of Palestine - encompassing the biblical, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, Fatimid, Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods - form part of the identity of the modern-day Palestinian people, as they have come to understand it over the last century