Is palestine a country?

Question

I think it is, I just wanted to hear other people's opinion. PALI PRIDE

Answer 1

Yes it is. Please see the link below.
http://www.palestine-net.com/

Answer 2

The Canaanites were the earliest known inhabitants of Palestine. They became urbanized and lived in city-states, one of which was Jericho . They developed an alphabet. Palestine's location at the center of routes linking three continents made it the meeting place for religious and cultural influences from Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor. It was also the natural battleground for the great powers of the region and subject to domination by adjacent empires, beginning with Egypt in the 3d millennium BC.
There never was a Palestinian people or a nation called Palestine. The Arabs invented the term after the fact. The so-called Palestinians lived mostly in Jordan and Syria. Yasser Arafat, the leader of the so-called “Palestinians,” is actually an Egyptian!

Back on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper "Trouw" published an interview it had with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. This is what he had to say:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

Answer 3

Was. Not now. Will be.


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You have a map from the future, don't you?

In Nov. 1947 the United Nations divided Palestine, then under British mandate, into Jewish and Arab states. Six months later the British withdrew, and on May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. The neighboring Arab states of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq rejected both the partition of Palestine and the existence of the new nation. In the war that followed (1948–49), Israel emerged victorious and with its territory increased by one half. Arab opposition continued, however, and full-scale fighting broke out again in 1956 (the Sinai campaign), 1967 (the Six-Day War), and 1973 (the Yom Kippur War). Israel emerged from these conflicts with large tracts of its neighbors' territories.

Following the 1967 war, the UN Security Council called for Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank. The Camp David accords (1978) incorporated plans for Arab self-rule in the region. A peaceful resolution, however, was impeded by the establishment of Israeli settlements in the area and by Israeli-PLO hostility (Arab states, including Jordan, recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the West Bank Arabs in 1974).




I'm sure the Palestinians will be pleased to know that they can drop their demand for a homeland.

Occupied territories are not countries and I hope by proof you don't mean that map.

Now, if you want to call Israel 'Palestine' you might have an argument.

The Palestians rule Gaza?
Well, that must be news to them:

Gaza Strip, coastal region of the Middle East (2003 est. pop. 1,200,000), 140 sq mi (370 sq km), on the Mediterranean Sea, adjoining Egypt and Israel. Densely populated and impoverished, it is mainly inhabited by Palestinian refugees; there is also a small minority of Israeli settlers. The strip was part of the British mandate for Palestine from 1917 to 1948, passed to Egyptian control in 1949, and has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Autonomy for the region, promised by the Camp David accords (1978), has yet to be granted. The Palestinian uprising (intifada) began in Gaza in 1987; the area has been the scene of renewed violence since 2000.

http://www.hejleh.com/countries/palestine.html

And, where is their half of Jerusalem?

And if that is Palestine, why is that Israeli soldiers are the ones guarding the Allenby Bridge when you enter from Jordan.

Besides, I have seen a far more intersting map than yours. I saw a 1966 topo made in Israel that already had the West Bank inside of the defined Israel border.

Now, how could the Israeli's have known - a year ahead of time - that land would become part of their country?

The truth is that Palestine (just to give it a name) is an occupied 'territory' that hangs in limbo.

Back to school for you.

Answer 4

Yes. Palestine is a country. It occupies the same space as present day Israel.

Answer 5

NO. Palistine is a PART of a country, Israel. They try to have their own government, but they are not an official country.

Answer 6

palistine is located next to Israel. if you have to ask, youre just stupid, and so are the people who answered no. i have proof, do you? http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/asie/images/palestine-map1.jpg

Answer 7

No..