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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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What conflict was in palestine when Jesus was alive?
The Zealots, a group of devout and patriotic Jews, wanted to drive the Romans from the land of Israel and restore it to Jewish rule. The conflict was not open to the extent of having battles between the two sides, but it was beneath the surface. There was group of Zealots called the Iscari, the dagger bearers, and they were said to be pledged to murder any Roman soldier they found alone, and also to assassinate any Jew who collaborated with the Romans. There is some speculation that Judas (Judas Iscariot) was a member of this group.
No. Palestinians and Arabians are both Arabs, but they are different subgroups based on nationalities. This is the same way that Frenchmen and Germans are both Caucasians, but different subgroups based on nationalities. An Arabian comes from the Arabian Peninsula, i.e. a Saudi, Qatari, Bahraini, a Yemeni, and Omani, or an Emirati. Palestinians come primarily from the southern Levant, i.e. Palestine, Jordan, and Israel.
What did palestine use to be called?
Answer 1
British Mandate of Palestine.
Answer 2
The lack of a singular definition for what constitutes "Palestine" make the question difficult to answer. "Palestine" is typically interpreted one of two ways. The first way is to refer to all of the land in the British Mandate of Palestine which includes the Modern State of Israel (except for the Golan Heights), the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The second way is to refer to exclusively those territories which the Palestinian Authority claims will serve as a basis for a future Palestinian State: the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The former British Mandate of Palestine, therefore, it currently occupied by three nations: the de jure legitimate State of Israel (78% of the former Mandate), the de jure legitimate State of Palestine (20% of the former Mandate) and located in the "West Bank", and the de jure illegitimate Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip (2% of the former Mandate).
What atrocities has Israel committed against the Palestinians?
Answer 1
The question is one-sided. Israel has certainly made mistakes and civilians have been killed. Israel is defending itself against the terrorists of the nationality named in your question; and collateral incidents do sometimes occur, just as by the hands of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Unlike Palestinian terrorists, Israel never deliberately targets innocent people.
Answer 2
The question is appalling. It asks the responding contributor to spend time and thought, and come up with a list of charges that can be used to condemn.
One can only reiterate the statement in Answer 1, and urge you to think about it: Unlike many of its neighbors, Israel never deliberately targets innocent people.
Answer 3
While agreeing with Answers 1 & 2 that the question is biased and written in a way so as to avoid mentioning of the numerous Palestinian atrocities against Israelis, there are several particular atrocities committed by Israelis (mostly without government sanction) against Palestinians that are commonly mentioned as actual atrocities (see below). However, most people who use the term "atrocity against the Palestinians" use it to refer to anything that Israelis do regardless of whether it is considered an atrocity when Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians, and Egyptians do the exact same things.
Deir Yassin (1947): This is probably the best-known Israeli atrocity. The Irgun, a Jewish terrorist organization entered the Palestinian town of Deir Yassin and massacred 107 non-combatant Palestinians. The Israeli leadership under Ben Gurion made it clear that such activities would not be tolerated and forcibly disbanded the Irgun.
Qibya Massacre (1953): Called Operation Shoshana by the Israeli Defense forces, Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank. 69 Palestinian Arabs, two thirds of them women and children, were killed and 45 houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed. The attack followed cross-border raids from the Jordanian occupied West Bank in which Israeli civilians were killed. The U.S. State Department and Jewish communities around the world condemned the attack.
Kafr Qasim Massacre (1956): On October 29, 1956, Israeli border police (MAGAV) conducted a raid in the Arab-Israeli town, resulting in 48 Arab civilians dead, including 6 women and 23 children. Arab sources usually give the death toll as 49, as they include the unborn child of one of the women. The Israeli court found that the command to kill civilians was "blatantly illegal", and sentenced the border police responsible to lengthy jail terms which were later pardoned by the government. In December 2007, President of Israel Shimon Peres formally apologised for the massacre.
Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre (1994): American-born Israeli Baruch Goldstein, a member of the far-right Israeli Kach movement, opened fire on unarmed Palestinian Muslims praying inside the Abraham Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank. The attack left 29 male worshippers dead and 125 wounded. The attack only ended after Goldstein had expended his ammunition and was beaten to death by survivors. Within 48 hours of the massacre, riots all across the West Bank led to altercations between Palestinians and Israeli Defense forces, leading to the deaths of another 19 Palestinians. The Israeli government condemned the massacre and responded by arresting members of the Kach movement, forbidding certain settlers from entering Arab towns and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles. Goldstein was denounced by mainstream Orthodox Judaism and was widely described as insane by Israelis.
When did israel take control of the West Bank?
Israel has a number of issues as concerns giving up control of the West Bank. This list a non-exhaustive set of reasons.
1) Strategic Physical Defense Issues: If Israel were to withdraw out of the West Bank, the area around the city of Herzliyya would be only 8 miles wide. If this area was breached by an attacking Arab army, Israel could be cleaved in two (Galilee and Central Regions) in only fifteen minutes and would greatly threaten Israeli viability.
2) Strategic Air Defense: The Judean Highlands, which make up the lower half of the West Bank are some of the tallest mountains/hills in Israel. As a result, they have a large number of radar towers used to maintain vigilance over all of Israeli airspace. Without a highland position, of which there are few in 1949-Israel, such a sensor array would be ineffective at scanning Israeli airspace.
3) Palestinian Militants: Even though Salam Fayyad has done an incredible job of reducing the amount of Palestinian Extremists operating in the West Bank, there still remain a number of Terrorist organizations in the territory. A withdrawal from the territory would not only embolden them, but make communications, meetings, and other dealings easier for them. The Palestinian Police cannot control the territory alone at this point.
4) Israeli Settlements: Israel has 121 settlements with nearly 350,000 inhabitants in the West Bank. (This does not count for internal redistribution in Jerusalem). Many of these settlements are firmly entrenched both in the minds of their occupants and in terms of their building structures (such as government offices, universities, highways, and other markers of long-term settlement). Removing these settlements would be one of the most difficult things for Israel to do militarily-speaking and politically-speaking (as a number of political parties actively support West Bank settlement).
5) Jerusalem: Jerusalem has a lot of significance to Jews and both Eastern Jerusalem and the Old City of Jerusalem are considered part of the West Bank. The idea of a unified Jerusalem is considered very special to a great number of Israelis and control of the Old City is seen as the only practical way to make sure that Jews can access the holy sites there. (Under Jordanian occupation, Jews could not go to their holy sites.)
6) Non-Jerusalem Holy Sites: The West Bank (by sheer accident of history) happens to be where much of Ancient Israel used to exist. Therefore, a number of Biblical cities with an Israelite past, like Hebron, Jericho, Bethlehem, Shchem (Nablus), and others, are in the West Bank. There are numerous holy sites in those places as well as the historical past buried in them. Many Israelis do not want to lose access to those places as well.
7) Religious Zionism: There are numerous political parties (and the Israelis they represent) who believe that Zionism refers to Divine Mandate to create a State in all lands controlled by the Israelites. Since the Israelites controlled the West Bank (and it was the center of their Kingdom), the West Bank is necessarily, in their view, part of any Jewish State.
Why India and Pakistan Seperated?
As result of being USA a great power in the 1947 ,USA supported and considered a policy to limit the historical power of great Britain.
The target of American not only to a powerful nation but also to be the only powerful along world.
The criminal nature of American who killed Red Indian and consruct their hybride powerfull country doest allow them never to be honset or ethical like other human beeings,so, they plan to separate Pakistan from Indian and to keep both are week by creating a long term conflict between them which becam a hirtage of both nighbouring country
Mount Arafat or Mount Arafah (Arabic: جبل عرفات; transliterated Jabal 'Arafāt) is a granite hill east of Mecca. It is also known as the Mount of Mercy (Jabal ar-Rahmah). The hill is the place where the Islamic prophet Muhammad stood and delivered the Farewell Sermon to the Muslims who had accompanied him for the Hajj towards the end of his life. It reaches about 70 m in height.
According to Islamic tradition, it was on Mount Arafah that Adam and Eve, separated for 200 years following their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, met and recognized each other and were reunited[citation needed]. Here too they were forgiven by Allah for their transgression after offering their repentance. A main reason of the ritual of pilgrimage is the renewal of that Prayer of Repentance every year standing on the hill of mercy, the climax of Hajj. The pilgrims will spend the whole day on Arafah supplicating to Allah to forgive their sins and praying for personal strength in the future.
Arafah rituals end at sunset and pilgrims then move to Muzdalifah for shortened Maghrib Prayer and `Isha' prayers and for a short rest.
The level area surrounding the hill is called the Plain of Arafat. The term Mount Arafat is sometimes applied to this entire area. It is an important place in Islam because during the Hajj, pilgrims spend the afternoon there on the ninth day of Dhul Hijjah (ذو الحجة). Failure to be present in the plain of Arafat on the required day invalidates the pilgrimage. Many pilgrims stay here all night in vigil.[1]
The hill is referenced in James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake.[2]
Since late 2010, this place is served by Mecca Metro. On A Normal Hajj the Mount would be around thirteen miles to walk and would be the 3rd day of events after the Pilgrims have drank from the well of Zam Zam
Why might Palestinians and Kurds be considered stateless nations?
Palestinians are considered as stateless because Israel has taken their land that belongs in fact to Palestinians. And as America is the leader of the world, as it is also in the side of israel, it doesn't allow Palestine to be an independent state. Israel is trying to take all the land.
As for the Kurds, they are spread across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria without the ability to self-govern. As Turkey is supported the by the United States as well, it has been allowed to deny the Kurds autonomy. Iraq has given the Kurds autonomy, but only because of US requests in the writing of the constitution. The Iranians and Syrians actively exclude Kurds and repress their right to individual expression.
The kingdom of the united hebrews in palestine is called?
There was never a Hebrew kingdom in "Palestine". The united kingdom of the Hebrews was the land of Israel. (It was later renamed "Palestine" by the Romans after they expelled the Jews from the land and took control.
What is the distance between College Station Texas and Palestine Texas?
It is 108 miles according to Google Maps.
How can Palestine be saved from the Israelis?
Answer 1
Palestine can be saved from the Israelis by demand freedom and equality for all.
Answer 2
At the moment, the greater impediment to a free Palestine is not Israel, but an ineffective Palestinian leadership. When Salam Fayyad was Prime Minister, the West Bank was making impressive strides towards organization and development. Since his departure and the integration of Hamas back into a Palestinian unity government, crime has increased and Palestinians are subject to more internecine violence. If the government were more similar to Tunisia, Palestine may well have already achieved independence.
Answer 3
For all who love Palestine, the more urgent question is: How to save her from the Palestinians.
Answer 4
Over the last 24 hours, more than one hundred Palestinian-made missiles have been fired from Gaza into Israeli civilianareas. In order to hinder Israeli attempts to silence the Palestinian rocket-launchers, Hamas has surrounded them with Palestinian women and children as a human shield (Reuters news, July 8, 2014), since they know that Israel tries to avoid hitting civilians even collaterally. When the Palestinian militants decide to respect the lives of civilians, perhaps they'll also agree to meaningful negotiations.
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What is the connection between Palestine Liberation Organization and Irish Republican Army?
The IRA actively supported the PLO, and many of its members trained in PLO training camps.
IN THE BOOK BLOOD BROTHERS BY ELIAS CHAUCOR how do Faraj and Elias difer in their approahes to dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Who has more land Palestine or Israel?
It depends on your terms.
If you are referring to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip cumulatively as Palestine and the 1949 borders of the State of Israel as Israel, then Israel is 3x larger than Palestine.
If you are referring to the British Mandate of Palestine, then the State of Israel according to 1949 borders is smaller than Palestine.
If you are comparing the current areas under Israeli control to the area of Mandatory Palestine, they are roughly equal. (The gain in the Golan Heights is more-or-less offset by the loss of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank Zone A regions.)
What were the repercussions of Israel replacing Palestine on the map?
First thing that must be understood is that the land you are talking about had different names in different times. The native population, Jews and Israelis, call it Eretz Israel, which means "Land of Israel" in Hebrew. The name "Palestine" was given to this area thousands years later by Romans after they quelled the Jewish Bar Kohba revolt that cost Rome thousands of lives of their soldiers who were occupying Judea. In revenge, Romans renamed Judea in Palestine naming it after the bitter enemies of Jews and Israelis: Philistines( in Roman transcription, Palestinians, the union of tribes of the Sea People who invaded the coastal land of what later became Eretz Israel in some 1800 BC).
Jews finally defeated Philistines, but it cost them dear. Romans also tried to rename Jerusalem in Aelea Capitolina, but this name did not stick, while the name "Palestine" did. Since then, the name "Palestine" became the name officially used by Romans ( and, consecutively, by all the world under Roman rule) in all the documents. But this is the same territory of Eretz Israel under different name, and Jews and Israelis go on calling it "Eretz Israel" like they had been doing for thousands years.
To understand it better: there is a country whose inhabitants call it The Country of the Rising Sun. But the West calls it Japan. Different names are applied for the same territory.
Second what you have to know is that there never was any country named Palestine. Palestine is the geographical area, like balkans, where different countries and part of the countries are situated. About 75% of the geographical area called "Palestine" is where modern Jordan is. Another 13% of Palestine is where Israel, together with Judea and Samaria, is. Southern Lebanon and Soutghern part of Syria are also in Palestine.
So, Israel has not replaced anything on the map, as there was nothing to replace.
How much land have the Palestinians lost to the Israel's?
Most of what they gained in 1948, when the UN drew up the map but the "Palestinians"
rejected the whole notion of partition and attacked Israel.
Why did the British give up their right to mandate Palestine to the UN?
Answer 1
The British mandatory gave up Palestine because it wanted Jews to live and own Palestine at the same time it did not want the Arabs to hate them so they let the USA to take over. the British also knew that the USA will give the Jews what they wanted because some Jews lived in USA and also the formation of the Irgun began at the USA.
Answer 2
The British Mandatory government starting with the White Papers in 1939 and increasingly restrictive practices was actively seeking to prevent the creation of a Jewish State. This was in order to curry favor with the Arabs whose oil the British greatly desired. Angered that the British were betraying their promise to both the Jews directly in the Balfour Declaration and their requirements pursuant to the League of Nations Mandate, Jewish terrorist organizations in Mandatory Palestine attacked British fortifications. The Irgun and Lehi (the two such organizations) caused sufficient problems for the British and forced their hand in the International Community. Not wanting to try to keep the peace between the increasingly militant Jewish militias (like the Haganah and Palmach) from the increasingly militant Arab militias (like the Holy War Army and the Arab Liberation Army), the British referred the question of Mandatory Palestine to the United Nations. This way, they would not have to lose more British soldiers in the quagmire.
