Who are the Israelis and Palestinians?

Answer 1

Palestinian people today is one of the terms referring mainly to Arab people with family origins in Palestine. The religion of Palestinians is primarily Islam, but there are others who consider themselves Palestinian, including Christians, Druze, and Jews.

In British Mandate Palestine, all those granted citizenship by the Mandatory authorities were granted "Palestinian citizenship," including the newly arriving Jewish immigrants. The term "Palestinian" as used by the Mandatory authorities referred to all people residing there, regardless of religion. Following the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people, the use and application of "Palestine" and "Palestinian" by and to non-Arab Palestinians dropped from use; and its use was again taken up by its Arabs after the establishment of the PLO in 1964. The English-language newspaper The Palestine Post for example, primarily served the Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine; after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the newspaper's name was changed to The Jerusalem Post. Today, Palestinian Jews generally identify as "Israelis". The more precise terminology Palestinian Arab which was in use until the 1960s is often contracted/abbreviated - at the expense of some linguistic clarity or for political purposes - to the now commonly used Palestinian. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, it is common for Arab citizens of Israel to identify themselves as both "Israeli" and "Palestinian" and/or "Palestinian Arab" or "Israeli Arab" in most cases.

The Palestinian National Charter, as amended by the Palestine National Congress in July 1968, states that "The Palestinians are those Arab nationals who, until 1947, normally resided in Palestine regardless of whether they were evicted from it or stayed there. Anyone born, after that date, of a Palestinian father-whether in Palestine or outside it-is also a Palestinian." The Charter also allows that "The Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion are considered Palestinians."

The most recent draft of the Palestinian constitution expands the definition of Palestinian to state that: "Palestinian citizenship shall be organized by law without prejudicing the right of anyone who acquired it before 15 May 1948 in accordance with the law or the right of the Palestinian who was resident in Palestine before that date. This right is transmitted from fathers and mothers to their children. The right endures unless it is given up voluntarily.

The Palestinians are Arabs that moved into Palestine a century ago. Many of them came from Jordan and Syria.

The Palestinians are an Arab-speaking people with family origins in Palestine, an area now known as Israel along with Israeli territories, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Answer 2

Answer 1

Palestinians are the people of Jerusalem which was called Palestine until it was taken over by the Israeli's because Jews never had a land on this earth, for example: The country for the Iraqis is Iraq and the country for Malaysians is Malaysia, but Jews never had a country to begin with so they took over Palestine.

Answer 2

Palestinians are the endemic inhabitants of the former British Mandate of Palestine. They are considered ethnically Arab and part of the larger Levantine or Shamite Identity. Most trace their lineage back to around 800 years. As a result of the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949, many Palestinians are living in exile in Refugee Camps. Others are living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, while still others live in the independent Gaza Strip or Palestinian Authority.

Israelis are the descendants of the Jews who returned to their ancestral home and those who chose to become citizens of the new state formed by those Jews.

Answer 3

Israel and Palestine are two countries in the Southern Levant region.

Israel is a country that was established in 1948. Israel is a democracy, with a unicameral legislature whose representatives are chosen by popular vote of all adult citizens, is a member of the United Nations, and is recognized by and maintains diplomatic relations with all but 34 of the world's 196 nations.

Palestine is a country that was declared in 1988 and established in 1993. Palestine is divided in two distinct units. The Gaza Strip is Dictatorship run by the paramilitary/terrorist group Hamas and the West Bank is a strongly illiberal democracy run by the Palestinian Authority. Palestine is recognized by most countries.

Answer 4

Bad because the palestinians feel that israel is their land and israelis say it is their God promised land, and this causes alot of turmoil.