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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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Who is The leader of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization?
As of October 2023, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is Mahmoud Abbas, who has held the position since 2004. He is also the President of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas has been a prominent figure in Palestinian politics, advocating for a negotiated peace with Israel while facing various internal and external challenges.
Is Israel too harsh on the Palestinians?
Answer 1
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.
Answer 2
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.)
yes im pali and im arab, some are christians aswell
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Yes, palestinians are arab.
Arabized through Islamicization, but not anciently Arab. They self-identified as Syrians back in the days of the British Mandate, or just self-identified by family or village or tribe, but never called themselves "Palestinians."
Who should occupy Israel the Jews or Palestinian Arabs?
The way the question is written is to assume that it is not theirs, which is not the case in the slightest. According to historical, religious, legal, and political grounds, the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine at least partially, if not entirely, belongs to the Jewish people.
1) Historically: The Jews have an undeniable presence in the land from at least 700 BCE until 70 CE and this is proven not only by the Biblical account, but from Assyrian Ruins, Babylonian documents, Hellenistic inscriptions, and Roman volumes. Jews had a continuous presence in the land from 70 CE until the present day (even though they were nowhere near the majority) even though they were forcibly deported from the territory. The fact that they survived, as opposed to the Arameans or Hittites who were similarly exiled does not illegitimate their claims.
In addition to the population-part of the historical claim, Jews have physical ruins and cities that are very sacred to them in the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine. The city of Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Jewish Bible. The city of Nablus used to be the Northern Metropolis of Shechem. Hebron was the first capital of Ancient Israel whence Saul ruled and David ruled until he conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites. Even more recent sites like Masada document the Jewish presence and struggle to persevere.
2) Religiously: The Jewish claim to have a connection to the land of the British Mandate of Palestine is firmly grounded in their religion. Jews as early as the Babylonian exiles wrote about returning to the land because God had promised it to them. According to the Pentateuch, God promised Abraham that piece of land. (This promise is even acknowledged in the Qur'an 5:20-21 and 17:104.) Many Jewish Holy Sites are in Israel such as the Kotel Hama'aravi (Western Wall).
3) Legally: By international law, the Ottoman Empire took the territory from the Seljuks and Abbassids by internationally recognized conquest. The territory was ceded to the British as a Mandate by the Ottomans as a term of surrender in World War I. (Even though the British had promised the territory to both the Arabs and Jews during the War, neither promise is legally binding.) According to the terms of the Mandate, even though the British were in control, the League of Nations had official jurisdiction. In 1947, the British gave direct authority to the League of Nations' successor, the United Nations, in accordance with the terms of their Mandate. The UN passed the 1947 Partition Plan that gave both a Jewish State and an Arab State the Right to Declare Statehood. The fact that the Arabs decided not to immediately declare such a state does not make the Israeli declaration any less valid. (It is important to note that Palestine did declare statehood on these grounds in 1988, which further cements the legality of this view.)
4) Politically: Jews invested a lot in building the political and physical infrastructure of the land even before they had control. Jews built farms, trained military brigades, created political parties, studied government, and defended themselves. This created a system that was able to repel the Arab Attacks in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, secure expanded borders in the Six Day War of 1967, and hold those borders in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Israelis were actually able to exert control over this territory.
Of course, this list is not exhaustive, but should capture the sentiment of the question.
What claim did Palestinians have to Palestine?
The Palestinians claim that there people were living in Palestine for thousands of years, but there is no proof of it. They also claim that their Prophet Mohammed visited Jerusalem, so its their 3rd holiest city, but there is no proof of that either, and Jerusalem is not mentioned once in their whole holy book, the Qur'an.
The Israelis claim that they have been living in the land for thousands of years, and that for thousands of years Jerusalem was their capital. There is proof of that.
It's so sad that people are on the Palestinians side, and the Israelis are the ones with proof to their claims.
What happened in Israel from 1945 to 1948?
in 1948 the British gave up there power in palestine the UN gave that area to be a Jewish homeland where the Jews could be free off persucution and so they renamed in Israel, (btw:Jacob from the bible changed his name to Israel as well) so basically 1948 is when Israel became a soviern nation
Is Ramallah the capital of Palestine?
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.
Which country does the west bank belong to?
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.
What were the main cities in Palestine in Jesus' time?
The region later known as Palestine was divided by the Romans as follows:
- The province of Judea, which also included Samaria. Its cities and villages included:
- Jerusalem
- Caesarea (the capital of the province)
- Jericho
- Hebron
- Bethlehem
- Bethany - village
- The territory of Herod Antipas (a son of Herod the Great). It had two regions: Galilee and Perea. Its cities and villages included:
- Sepphoris - built by Herod Antipas
- Tiberius - built by Herod Antipas
- Bethsaida
- Nazareth - village
- Capernaum - village
- Cana - village
- Nain - village
- The territory of Philip, which included Iturea and Trachonitis. Its cities included:
- Caesarea Philippi
- The cities of the Decapolis (ten cities) - self governing cities. These included:
- Gerasa (Jerash)
- Scythopolis (Beth-Shean) - located between Galilee and Perea
- Hippos
- Gadara
- Pella
- Philadephia (Amman)
- etc.
Why is religion the cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
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.
How many Jewish refugees came to palestine in 1945?
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.
Where is Jerusalem located City Country Continent?
Jerusalem is in Israel, a country on the continent of Asia.
What city is Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock located in?
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.
Why did European Jews begin migrating to Palestine in the 1800's?
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).
What continent is Palestine on?
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.
Are Jews and Palestinians related?
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).
Why do Israel treat the Palestinians so badly?
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.
In which country is old city of Jerusalem?
It depends entirely on the years in question. Chronologically, we have the following list of occupants:
- Proto-Canaanite
- Egyptian New Kingdom
- Jebusites
- United Kingdom of Israel
- Judah
- Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Neo-Babylonian Empire
- Achaemenid Persian Empire
- Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great
- Ptolemaic Hellenic Empire
- Seleucid Hellenic Empire
- Hasmonean Kingdom
- Roman Empire
- Byzantine Empire
- Sassanid Persian Empire
- Rightly-Guided Islamic Caliphate
- Umayyad Islamic Caliphate
- Abbassid Islamic Caliphate
- Fatimid Islamic Caliphate
- Seljuk Sultanate
- Kingdom of Jerusalem and Other Crusader States
- Ayyubid Islamic Caliphate
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Ottoman Sultanate
- British Empire
- Jewish State of Israel & Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (the city was divided from 1949-1967 between the two countries)
- Jewish State of Israel (exclusively)
What year did the UN divide Palestine into a jewish state and an Arab state?
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.
