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Palestinian Territories

The Palestinian territories consist of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined. They were originally part of the British Mandate of Palestine, then captured and occupied by Jordan and by Egypt and later captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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How does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict represent the struggle of right against right?

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Understanding the causes behind a situation can help you determine who is truly at fault.

in 3;25 minutes video we have shown 5 Reasons which cause this Attack and this situation.

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Which one do you think is bad palestine or israel?

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Understanding the causes behind a situation can help you determine who is truly at fault.

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What is the National bird of Palestine?

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The Palestine Sunbird or Northern Orange-tufted Sunbird (Cinnyris oseus) is the national bird of the country, not the animal, and the national animal is the Mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella).

What was the coastal district north of Jewish Palestine called?

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Perhaps the question refers to the nation of Israel. If that's the case, then

the northern political district, which borders Lebanon and includes the city of

Nazareth, is labeled "Northern District" on the political map of Israel.

Why were Palestinians against the establishment of Israel?

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The Palestinian Arabs were greatly saddened by the creation of the State of Israel because they believed that the land that had physically belonged to their parents and grandparents should have been theirs for inheritance. In their minds, it did not make sense that a group of German, Polish, French, English, and Russian speaking people should claim land that their ancestors had not even visited for centuries. Even by the time of Israel's Declaration of Statehood, less than half of the land within the UN proscribed borders of Resolution 181 was owned by Jews. Therefore, the idea of Jewish State being even more physically expansive than the land already taken was alarming.

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The entire idea of Israel is a modern colony in the Middle East. Prior to 1900, less than 10% of the population of what would become Mandatory Palestine was Jewish and the Fellahin or Settled Arabs were the majority. There were also a large percentage of Turks, Circassians, Bedouin, and Druze, but the Settled Arabs were still the majority. Zionist Jews or those Jews who desired to create a Jewish State cleverly manipulated the Great Powers, especially the United Kingdom into giving them the right to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in large numbers without consulting the rights of the Fellahin. Additionally, Zionist Jews purchased large swaths of land from Turkish nobility without consulting the Fellahin who lived on that land for centuries but did not properly own it. As a result, numerous Fellahin were forced off of their land during the Yishuv period, Yishuv being the word for a Zionist Jewish settlement in Mandatory Palestine. The Jewish population in Palestine continued to rise until 1939 when the Fellahin successfully petitioned the British government to close off Jewish immigration.

However, the Jewish minority had grown sufficiently large in Mandatory Palestine that this combined with the Holocaust was able to earn international sympathy for the Zionist cause of establishing a State for the Jews in a land where the Jewish population had literally "just" shown up. Compare this to Rhodesia which was a state that declared independence to be ruled by the White Settlers of Rhodesia in 1960 that had been on that land. Rhodesia was so vilified in the international community that in only 20 years, it reverted to become the African nation of Zimbabwe. However, in that case, the White Settlers had come to Rhodesia as early as 1860, which makes them far more "local" than the Zionist Jews in Palestine in 1948 (most of whom were in the country for less than 30 years). The attempt by the Yishuv to form a state could not be tolerated and the Arabs formed militias to prevent the Yishuv from asserting control over land that had been historically settled by the Arab people. As a result, war broke out between the Zionist Haganah, Palmach, Irgun, and Lehi militias and the Fellahin, represented by the Holy War Army and the Arab Liberation Army. The neighboring Arab countries joined in when the Yishuv declared independence to help to the Arab militias.

How long did Gaza war last?

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there was 6 battles of Gaza. Here are the dates for each battle:

  • Battle of Gaza: 312 BC
  • Battle of Rapia aka Battle of Gaza: 22nd June 217 BC
  • First Battle of Gaza: March 26, 1917
  • Second Battle of Gaza: April 19th 1917
  • Third Battle of Gaza: October 31-November 7, 1917
  • Battle of Gaza (2007): 10-15 June 2007

How many cities does Palestine have?

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Current Status

Now (as of 2014), Jerusalem is under the control of Israel. What is called the Western Jerusalem is the Israeli neighborhoods and the Arabs (Muslims and Christians) take up the eastern part of the city. According to the Israeli Jerusalem Law of 1980, Israel has annexed all of Jerusalem to be in Israeli territory.

Debate on Jerusalem

The issue that a lot of international groups have with the Israeli Declaration that Jerusalem is its capital is that the city defined by the Israelis as Jerusalem contains both de jureIsraeli territory (West Jerusalem) and the de jurenon-Israeli territory (East Jerusalem) which is owed, theoretically, to a Palestinian State. The UN Security Resolution 478 crystallized the International Stance on this issue.

Why is palestine important to all Muslims?

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because Palestine is the land of prophets. Many prophets were born or died in Palestine, including Prophets Ibrahim (Abraham), prophet (Lot), prophet (David), prophet (Solomon), prophet (Moses), and prophet (Jesus), peace upon them

What is the significance of Palestine the covenant and monotheism to Judaism and the Jews?

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OK, let's look at them in order: Monotheism - this is the belief that there is only one G-d. Judaism was the first organised faith to be Monotheistic, and to insist that followers remain loyal to and worship only the one true G-d, and nothing and nobody else. This was in stark contrast to the many Pagan and Mystery religions around at the time, which featured multiple deities. Covenant: - Abraham, the 'founder' of Judaism, made an eternal covenant with G-d, on behalf of his descendants. The covenant, or contract, states that G-d will protect and watch over the Jews, if they remain loyal to him and only him. If they did that, G-d promised to bless them and to create from them 'great nations'. Palestine - this region was named JUDEA and it was the home of the Jews. Then the Romans conquered it and renamed it 'palestina' after the sea-faring Philistines, who had long since vanished. Although most of the Jews were then dispersed across the globe, some remained in the region and have lived there, continuously for the past 3000 years. The nation that we call Israel today is a tiny sliver of the region. Israel is the national, religious and spiritual home of the Jews. It is vital to Jewish people to have a safe Israel, because history has shown that whenever Jews are the minority in other countries, they have suffered terribly. So we must have one tiny corner of the globe where we determine our own security and fate. I recommend the book EXODUS by Leon Uris, which is the best and most moving novel to ever deal with the history of Israel. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What sports were played in ancient Palestine?

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Boxing, wrestling, track and field, gladiator battles, chariot races

What area in Palestine was Bethlehem located?

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Bethelem is southern lobe of the West Bank, very close to Jerusalem.

What is the reward of fasting on the day of arafat?

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If you are on Pilgrimage and are in Arafat on the second day of Haj i.e. 9th Zul Hijjah, you stand and pray for forgiveness till sunset. The reward is all your sins will be forgiven and you will emerge sinless like a new born child when you complete the Haj.

For other Muslims, if they fast on this day all their sins will be forgiven for the past one year, and the following one year. It is recommended that every Muslim get this reward by fasting, if they can, on this day to reap the benefits of this auspicious day.

What was Rome's attitude towards the Jews of Palestine?

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Historians tells us that, in spite of several insurrections, the pagan Roman emperors treated the Jews with clemency and with toleration of their religion, which was accepted as not allowing Jews to worship the Roman gods.

It was not until the fourth century that the Christian emperors, beginning with Constantine, began to persecute the Jews for their faith.

What is the current status of the Palestine conflict?

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Basicaly the Jews and the Palastinians are fighting over land because the Jews had it first but they all left because they were fourced too. WHen they were put back by the united states the palastinians were there. that's the conflict.there curently fighting.

How did Israel respond to the PLO's use of terrorist tactics during the 1970s?

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Israel evicted them from the West Bank and sent Mossad agents to follow them wherever they went. Additionally, Israel began to modify its security apparatus to better anticipate PLO attacks.

Why were the Jews oppressed?

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As a general rule people who hate a particular race, religion or creed do so because of fear or ignorance. It is also encouraged by people with an agenda against that group, using propaganda, half truths and lies. Hatred also underlies much violence in the world. If people stopped exerting so much energy toward hating people who are different, they might just have the energy to rebuild this world to be a happier place. This hatred provided much of the legitimacy towards oppressing Jews.

Additionally, in the case of oppression there were two main advantages:

(1) When people are oppressed, their belongings and wealth can be confiscated. This can lead to lower taxes on the majority, increased privileges for the majority, and a party from which the majority can steal with much more impunity than the government coffers.

(2) Oppressed peoples are the perfect scapegoats for bad public policy or when governments lack knowledge as to a problem's true cause. Rather than try to calm the people and give rational explanations as to how and where they should direct their anger, it is far easier to point at a maligned group of people and say "They did it", regardless of their actual complicity. This was most prevalent during the Black Death and the European Great Depression.

Is Israel too harsh on the Palestinians?

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People who ask this are bothered that so few Israelis are dying. Plain and simple. Well, that's tough. We're not going to let ourselves be killed in order to satisfy you or the bleeding-heart liberals in their safe havens in Europe. In the Battle of Mogadishu (1993), between 1500 and 3000 Somalis died, including hundreds of civilians. How many Americans were killed? Eighteen. Did anyone accuse America for doing what it saw as necessary? During WW2, sixty seven Japanese cities were carpet-bombed with incendiaries. 300,000 dead. War reportage should not treat the casualty count as a moral scale in which (like golf) the higher the number, the lower is your rank. The fact that Japan suffered more than ten times the number of people killed than America did, does not change the war's moral barometer. America was fighting a just and necessary war against a heinous enemy.

In 2006, thousands of Hezbollah rockets rained down on us; the Iron Dome defense hadn't yet been perfected. Are you sad that now we, thank God, have an effective defense? The fact that Hamas doesn't have an Iron Dome is their bad fortune. Now why don't you turn the question around and ask why is it that the terrorists in Gaza aren't stopping? So far they've shot over two thousand rockets at us in one month.

You should be aware that almost all of the Palestinian deaths occurred as collateral damage while Israel was trying to defend its populace against these terrorist rocket attacks, and terrorist tunnelers and the like. Israel targets military objectives, warning nearby civilians in advance through phone calls and leaflets, while Israel's terrorist enemies target civilian objectives almost exclusively. As one witness, a journalist, said: "Israel uses its weapons to protect its women and children, while the cowardly Hamas uses women and children to protect its weapons" by putting them as a human shield near weapons caches and rocket launchers in Gaza. Thus Israel faces an impossible situation in which the terrorists are just waiting for their Palestinian brothers to be unintentionally killed so that they can seize the opportunity to internationally bash Israel in the gullible U.N. and the media. They shed false tears, which could have been prevented by laying down their Iran-supplied weapons and sitting down to negotiate. When Israeli civilians are killed, these same terrorists hand out candies and sing in the streets.

The Palestinian attacks violate one of the most basic rules of international humanitarian law, the rule of distinction. Article 48 of Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 states that "In order to ensure respect for and protection of the civilian population and civilian objects, the Parties to the conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives." Since the rockets Hamas aims at Israeli towns are launched into civilian enclaves, each of the 12,000 or so rockets that have come into Israel from Gaza since 2005 (including over 2000 this month alone) represents a war crime. Where is all the outcry against Hamas? People are being duped into their insidious propaganda.

And incidentally, where is your outcry concerning Muslims killing thousands of Muslims in Syria? Or the fact that the last remaining Christians now have fled Mosul after Islamic State militants issued a medieval-style ultimatum threatening them with death if they stayed.

Certain facts you may not know:

1) Hamas's founding charter calls for the complete destruction of Israel.

2) Israel supplies Gaza with water, electricity, medicines and provisions. What does Hamas do? It even fires at the power station that supplies Gaza with electricity.

3) Hamas oppresses its own Palestinian population, treats women as inferior objects, and persecutes Christians while building an army of fighters dedicated to suicide and holy war.

4) Israel treats wounded Palestinians. All the time. A reporter writes: This week I saw a Palestinian girl from Gaza being evacuated in an IDF tank to a hospital in Israel. She and her mother were interviewed, from inside an Israeli hospital. They spoke of the fair treatment, the care they received, and described the soldiers who had saved them as "brave and fair." Their faces were covered, for fear of being harmed when they return to their homes in Gaza.

5) Hamas fired on the field hospital Israel established in Shejaia, a facility which only treats wounded Palestinians. Hamas did this in retaliation for the IDF's attack on Wafa Hospital in the same neighborhood. The only difference is that Wafa Hospital is used as a Hamas launching pad for missiles aimed at us. We have publicized this on film; and we also have shown footage of them concealing missiles in U.N. schools.

6) In recent years they have not built so much as a single bomb shelter in Gaza, shelters that could save the lives of many civilians. Instead, they built dozens of underground tunnels from which to attack Israel and try to destroy it.

7) During the first 10 days of this war, the IDF lost 10 soldiers. Some of them, like the three paratroopers, are dead because the Israeli Air Force refused to attack a specific target for fear of hurting civilians. Instead, the paratroopers entered a booby-trapped house and were blown up.

8) Israel withdrew completely Gaza in 2005. Israel gave peace a chance. Instead of peace, we got war and war again. Hamas has refused to join any cease-fire Israel agreed to. We agreed to a cease fire even though, under the current circumstances, this would have been touted as an Israeli defeat. Hamas seeks to wreak death, to terrorize, to continue to brainwash those whose brains are not already drenched with uncompromising hatred.

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Your compassion is admirable. Did you speak out while next door, the Muslim president of Syria was responsible for killing 150,000 Muslim citizens of his own country, including 1700 this week?

During the Israeli air campaign, the Gaza Health Ministry reported 250 deaths, while Israel reported 1,300 air strikes against Hamas terrorist targets in Gaza. How is your math ? Can you see what that means ? It means AT LEAST 1,050 air strikes that produced NOT ONE SINGLE casualty. You need to ask yourself: "How is this possible ?" You may talk about being harsh on Palestinians. I can personally and confidently promise you that if Israel were out to kill Palestinians, in the same way that Hamas is out to kill Jews, then one Israeli pilot in one Israeli airplane could easily have killed 250 or 500 in a half hour ... it wouldn't take 1,300 missions. The Israeli air force and army have done MORE to PROTECT the rights and security of the Palestinian people than ANY military force in the history of warfare. Israel's fight is with Hamas, NOT with the Palestinian people, and Israel is far more concerned for the welfare of the Palestinian people than their own government is. You only need to think about a few simple questions:

==> Why would Hamas launch rockets from inside a crowded city, where people could get hurt, instead of from open fields?

==> Why would Hamas dig tunnels under the border and into Israel? What on Earth could they be planning to use them for?

==> Why would Hamas spend huge sums of money buying weapons and building tunnels, instead of building electric power, water purification, roads and rails for their own people?

==> What kind of a political party is it that feels the need to write into its constitution that it promises to destroy a neighboring country and its population?

What is the major conflict between Jews and Palestinians?

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The Jews began returning to their ancient homeland in the late 19th Century. The Jewish National Fund bought up large areas of swampland and desert in Palestine. It was land that was unoccupied.

The Palestinians started minor incursions with Jewish villages starting in the 1920's, but it escalated into war when Israel declared statehood in 1948. The original plan was to create two countries. The Jews accepted this plan and the Palestinians did not.

The Israeli government is officially still willing to entertain a two-state solution, but the Palestinian Authority officially rejects this plan and officially refuses to recognize Israel.

Where is the Gaza strip located geographically?

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Gaza strip is part of the Palestinian territory. It is a coastal strip on the Eastern

part of the Mediterranean sea as an extension of the northeastern corner of

the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt). It's bounded on the north by the Mediterranean

Sea, and on the northeast by Israel.
Gaza is located at 31°31′N 34°27′E

Which territory is partly controlled by Palestinians?

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The Palestinian Authority controls de jure all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. De facto, it only controls isolated pieces of the West Bank.

How was Palestine created?

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The question as worded is ambiguous since Palestine refers to several different things.

1) Land: The lands commonly referred to by the term "the Mandate of Palestine" came into existence (according to science) hundreds of millions of years (if not billions of years ago) from interactions between the African and Arabian Plates.

2) Mandate of Palestine: The British Mandate of Palestine was created during the Treaty of Versailles negotiations when the British Ambassador drew a line on a map and called it Palestine in 1919. In 1922, the area currently known as Jordan was separated jursidictionally from the Mandate of Palestine, giving the Mandate its present shape.

3) Current Nation of Palestine: The Nation of Palestine was created by the Oslo Accords in 1993. This document created the Palestinian Authority which became the recognized government of the State of Palestine. Palestine has embassies in numerous countries (except most Western States) as a result. (There are also embassies from before this point in countries that did not recognize Israel before the 1960s, but they were more symbolic than representative of an actual governing agency.)