good question. Ultimately, it should be people who lived in the brittish mandate known as "palestine"; that includes muslims and arabs.
However, its come to be used as a reference for muslims and people imply that there was a country called palestine in which they lived. However, no such country existed. "palestine" was owned by the ottoman empire for a long time, then the brittish gained control of it; they gave it to the UN who partitioned part of it for the Jews and part for the muslims. The muslims revolted, declaring that they wanted all of it, and the rest is history.
2006-07-18 16:47:10
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answered by Indecisive 2
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Palestinians are believed to be descendants of the Philistines (from the Bible).
Palestinian land is land that the Palestinians are contesting with the Israelis.
Cordially,
John
2006-07-18 23:45:42
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answer #2
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answered by John 6
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Palestinians are a group of people (muslims and christians) who were evicted from the present Israel in order to create the state of Israel. Some palestinians are also expatriates from the same land and used to live in Iraq and other nations. Most of them are now squeezed into small regions called Gaza and West Bank. Gaza strip originally belonged to Egypt and was occupied by Israel in 1967. West Bank belonged to Jordan and then taken over by Israel. Israel methodically took over land under false pretexts and wars, drove away palestinians and consolidated its position. The recent invasion in Lebanon was preceded by the assassination of Hariri and Syria was blamed for it so that Syriam forces were removed from Lebanon. Thus, it is clear Israel might have had a hand in removing Syrian forces from Lebanon in preparation for this recent war.
Israel has violated 35 UN resolutions, developed its own weapons of mass destruction and has a proven record of landgrabbing.
The hapless palestinians had no avenue than to resort to crude terrorism to intimidate Israel into gaining back some of their land.
While Israel must take the direct blame for this crime against humanity, the surrounding Arabic nations too must bear sizeable responsibility for ignoring the woes of Palestinians.
2006-07-18 23:52:08
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answered by interstate_101 3
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The Palestinians from a historical standpoint were not even Arab. They were sea faring Greeks that migrated to the Middle East. When they tried to set up their own land.., Syria rejected them, Lebanon rejected they, Egypt and others gave them the boot too.
They finally decided to take advantage of the Palestinian name and claim Palestines their ancient heritage. Which is impossible and I will tell you why.
Israel was laid waste by Roman Emperor Hadrian, who hated Jews with such a passion he renamed Israel to Palestine, then he set out to erase Jews and Israel from history by destroying records and anything he could get his hands on - including (now t his is sadistic) STRIPPING AWAY THE SOIL! turning Israel into a complete wasteland.
There was never any Palestinian ruler-ship in the land formerly and rightfully know as Israel.
Hadrian renamed Israel to the Greek variant name of the Jews historic enemies..., Philistines (Palestine) out of absolute hatred. The actual race of Philistines were completely erased from existence a few thousand years of years earlier. (The Bible even records this).
2006-07-19 00:04:25
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answered by Victor ious 6
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Palestinians are people who attacked the Jews and lost. The Jews gave them some land back but they are not happy.They want it all. They want the buffer zone Israel has had to keep the rest of the people from killing them easily. Most of the disputed land Is a strategic advantage for whoever controls it.
2006-07-18 23:50:42
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answered by thumper 5
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Palestinians are the Arab people who have lived in that region for centuries. They & they alone were inhabitants of those lands until Britain decided to hand over the land,now called Israel, which was not theirs, mind you, to the displaced Jewish people.
2006-07-18 23:48:00
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answer #6
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answered by somebrowning 4
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the land was given to the jews by the u.n. as a gift due to the holocaust. while the attrocites that happened to the jews under hitler were unspeakable and awfull, the land should never have been given over to the jews. it wasn't and isn't theirs to have. there will never be peace there...ever! you cannot fix religious problems that have existed for thousands of years.i resent the fact that as an american, we as a country continue to be in the middle of this mess. we have enough problems to deal with. if we were not in bed with isreal, we would have many less problems with the arabs. we do not need isreal, isreal needs us, and they don't provide us with anything. a strong hold in the middle east? we wouldn't need one if we weren't so involved over there to begin with. we can start to mend our relationships with people like the palestinians, but cutting off the aid to isreal, and minding our business. give them land!
2006-07-20 15:50:18
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answered by Catherine G 2
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the palestanians are the original inhabitants of the palestanian land.
Palestanians are Arab tribes (muslims, christians and jews) who lived together in peace under the ottman empire. later on england took over the land after the 1st world war .
and gave the land to the jews around (1917-1918 )
zionists from all over Europe started migrating to the New land. and drove the Arabs from their homes into the desert. 1948 the state of Israel was created on what used to be Palestine.
2006-07-18 23:47:42
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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http://www.palestine1.net/users/baker01/
PALESTINE By Baker Abdel Munem: Informatin, Facts, Maps,Documents, News, Links about Palestine and/or related to Palestine.
A pictorial slide show of the Palestinian Children: A pictorial slide show of the Palestinian children (who are supposed to be the terrorists) brutally killed by Israel in the new intifadah
http://web.mit.edu/farhan/www/terrorists/sld001.htm
2006-07-19 00:26:55
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answered by BeHappy 5
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They are members of the Jewish tribe of Judeah who converted to Islam before the crusades. Jews and Palestinians killing each other is just an internal family feud, best bet would be for all others ie the west and the arabs to keep out of it and stop suppling weapons to all them and hopefully when the bullets run out they will sit down and talk out their problems rahter than blame each other for them
2006-07-18 23:52:57
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answered by elvenlike13 3
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