Palestinian Territories

Palestinians claim East Jerusalem to be their capital, however, as Jerusalem is entirely in Israeli jurisdiction, this does not function as a de facto Palestinian capital. Historically, before 1967, Palestine did not have a capital.

Currently Palestine is split between two separate factions. The Palestinian Authority, which controls sporadic areas in the West Bank has its administrative offices and facilities in the city of Ramallah, to the north of Jerusalem. However, in support of their claim that Jerusalem is their future capital, they have designated Abu Dis (the closest area under their control to Jerusalem) as their official current capital. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, similarly claims Jerusalem as its capital, but has its administrative facilities in Gaza City and its organizational offices in Damascus, Syria.

In June 1967, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were captured by Israel as a result of the Six-Day War. With the exception of East Jerusalem and the former Israeli-Jordanian no man's land, the West Bank was not annexed by Israel but has remained under Israeli military control and is referred to as Judea and Samaria Area by Israel.

Once there was a place called Palestine..It was inhabited by Jews, who made two kingdoms: Israel and Judea. Later the Muslims invaded (634AD), and it remained Muslim until the First world War (as it belonged to the Ottoman Empire until 1917). In 1948, a new country was made called Israel. So the conflict derives from religious, geographical and political reasons. Both the Palestinian muslims and the Jews consider the territory as their own. To make it more difficult, Christianity was born there too. That is why it is the Holy Land for three religions.

Jews who survived the Holocaust wanted to go to Israel as it was trying to create a truly Jewish state. However, those Jews who tried to go home after the war found squatters living on their property who did not want to return the property to its rightful owners. Anti-Semitism had become entrenched, especially in smaller, less educated communities. Jews no longer had a place in Europe and wanted to live where they would not have to worry about discrimination.

In the case of Jews from Arab countries (who immigrated primarily in 1950-1955), many of them left to escape persecution and discrimination in those countries which was only mounting. Regardless of whether or not they supported the State of Israel or not, many Jews in Arab countries were found "guilty" of supporting Israel by the Court of Public Opinion and there were riots and pogroms.

Jerusalem is in Israel, a country on the continent of Asia.

The Dome of the Rock is located in the city of Jerusalem.


This strikes me as "What color is George Washington's white horse?" question.

Jerusalem is the city wherein the Dome of the Rock is located.

During the late 1800's there was a strong movement to return to the "promised land" of the Old Testament, called Zionism. As this movement gained popularity, large numbers of Jews from around the world resettled in what would become the British Mandate of Palestine.

Herzl explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe.

Ahad Ha'am explained that the Jewish Soul is intrinsically connected to his history and in the same way that a German-American can never be as properly German as a German in Germany, the People of Israel can never be as properly Jewish if they are not in the Land of Israel. The relics in that land speak to a Jewish sensibility and character. There are also religious reasons as expounded by Rav Avraham Kook which posit that the development of a Jewish State in Israel hastens the arrival of the Messiah.

Ancient Palestine refers to the region roughly encompassed by the former British Mandate of Palestine during all time-periods prior to 500 C.E. This territory is makes up part of the Southern Levant in the Middle East (Southwest Asia).

Palestine is in the continent of Asia, in Southwest Asia. It is a bifurcated state with a coastal region (Gaza Strip) bounded by Egypt and Israel and an internal region (West Bank) bounded by Israel and Jordan.

Most Jews share a common Near Eastern Levantite ancestry with the Palestinian people but some Jews have intermixed heavily with their host people (i.e. Persian Jews with Persians, Spanish Jews with Spaniards, Polish Jews with Poles, etc.). Palestinians have been highly influenced by Arabs and by Islam but still retain similar cultural aspects as Jews. Arabic and Hebrew are somewhat similar (many similar words like malik/melekh, ane/ani, Allah/Eloah, etc. and grammar).

Because people can't decide on who god is. Because their believes are different than others. People fight over holly ground and who they believe god is, or what book to read. We are a product of our enviroment. It may be a never ending war. When this war against Allah, Christ, Mohammad, and all the gods and their disciples ends in a world war, then the Jewish may start to get treated as equals. Perhaps then will all men be treated as one. God loves us all, or perhaps there is no god. Who am I to say? Who are you to say? I would tell tell you what I believe, but this is not the forum.

The Answer you are looking for is "the United Nations Partition Plan for the Mandate of Palestine".

However, there are two minor errors in the phrasing of this question. The first is semantic: the UN Partition Plan came out of UNGA Resolution 181 which was passed on November 29, 1947, not 1948. Israel declare independence according to the provisions of UNGA Resolution 181 on May 14, 1948, but that was not when the "division" occurred.

The second error is that Palestine was not actively divided. The UN took a map and made a prescriptive judgment about where a Jewish State should be and where an Arab State should be. It would have been binding had both sides agreed, but the Arabs were not interested in allowing for any Jewish State and therefore prevented an agreement from being realized. Therefore, Palestine was not actually divided physically, just potentially. Israel used this window of permissibility to declare statehood in 1948 and Palestine used this to declare statehood in 1988.

The two country is Israel and Jordan between the west bank.

In 1947, two Security Council members, the United States and the Soviet Union, reached agreement that Palestine was to be divided. In November, a UN Special Committee on Palestine presented a report to the General Assembly, with a majority advocating division, but a minority advocating a unitary state based on democracy. A two-thirds majority vote was necessary for partition to be supported by the United Nations. After intense pressure by USA and USSR, this two-thirds majority was achieved.

The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of conquering the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and freeing the Eastern Christians from Muslim rule. What started as an appeal by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus for western mercenaries to fight the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia quickly turned into a wholesale Western migration and conquest of territory outside of Europe. Both knights and peasants from many nations of Western Europe travelled over land and by sea towards Jerusalem and captured the city in July 1099, establishing the Kingdom of Jerusalem and other Crusader states. Although these gains lasted for less than two hundred years, the First Crusade was a major turning point in the expansion of Western power, as well as the first major step towards reopening international trade in the West since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Palestine, Texas is located in the eastern part of the state. As of 2010, it had a population of 18,712 and made history in 2003 when a majority of debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia landed on the small town.

King David.

When he was a young lad he was sent by his father to check on his brothers who were serving with King Saul's army. He accepted the challenge of Goliath for one on one combat to settle the battle between Saul and the Philistines. He found Saul's armour to heavy but defeated Goliath with a sling and stone in the Valley of Ela. (1st Samuel - Chapter 17)

He went on to be Saul's son in law, confidant of Jonathan (Saul's son), and (estranged) member of Saul's court. David eventually succeeded Saul. He reigned for 7 years in Hebron and then established his capital in Jerusalem where he reigned for 33 years.)

He was succeeded by his son Solomon who built the First Temple.

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No religions are fighting within Israel, unless you count the political squabbles between Religious Jews and Secular Jews. The nationalist fighting (which is often broken up by observers along religious lines) occurs primarily in the Palestinian territories. In those areas, primarily Jewish Israeli soldiers (although there are Muslim, Druze, and Christians enlisted in the Israeli Army) fight against primarily Muslim Palestinian Militants and Terrorists (although there are also Christian Palestinians).

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Yes.

However, it should be noted that while Jordan occupied the West Bank from 1949-1967, it had no legitimate rights to that land. Less than five nations recognized the validity of the Jordanian occupation. Therefore the "its" in the question is inaccurate. Jordan lost "the" West Bank, but not "its" West Bank.

same as us. December 25. They have Christmas dinner on the eve of the 24th