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Question

Is Gaza a country?
Where is Palastine on the globe?
If the name of the country Israel is 20 - 50 years new, what was it called before?
Where was Jesus Christ 's Tomb located and does it still excised?

Answer 1

stupid question. it's purely political and clearly has nothing to do with travel. take this rhetorical nonsense to a political questions board.

Answer 2

Gaza is a part of the country of Israel, but is mostly occupied by the Palestinian people and so sets up road blocks to go in and out of the area.

There is no longer a country called Palestine. In fact, there never was. There are a people called Palestinians. They are Arabic, not Semitic as are the Jews who occupy most of Israel.

The area was not an official country until 1948. It was a British protectorate and was called Palestine, but did not have its own government or anything else to make it a country.

Jesus' tomb does not still exist. There are many theories as to exactly where it was located. One of the most popular ones is where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is now located.

Answer 3

Gaza is a piece of land that once was Egyptian but seized by Israel after 1967. if you look at a map of the middle east is that bit of the coast to the south and west of Israel stretching towards Egypt and the Suez Canal.

The UK postal service (Royal Mail) recognises Gaza & Khan Younis as a postal desitnation.. it may not be a formally recognised country but it is separate from other areas. Its not part of Israel. You may have doubts as to whether its a country in it own right.. legally I dont think it is, and certainly the presence of the IDF in Gaza would suggest its not a sovereign state.

Palestine as a country doens't exist.. it never has. Im not sure what the official title is but the west bank is what remains of the old British Palestinian Mandate (BPM), which the UK transferred to the UN in 1948. The original BPM was the rump of the old TransJordan province that Britian accquired on the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1.
Part of the Transjordan became Jordan, some went to Lebanon, Syria, leaving the contentious bit beneath Lebanon.

Israel seemingly wants to annexe the West Bank (well at least the attractive bits inlcuding Jerusalem) I suspect the founders of Israel have always thought that they should have the rest of the BPM not already ceded to Jordan and others.

Did Jesus Christ ever exist.. who knows? certainly not any one alive today. and you need to be certain he existed befre you start looking for any tomb.

Answer 4

Gaza is not a country and it currently remains one of the few places in the world that is not run by a country. (i.e. Israel withdrew and the Palestinian Authority, aka Hamas, is in charge but that does not make a country.)

There is no such country in the world called Palestine so it should not be located on any normative globe map.

The State of Israel has existed since 1948. Before then, it was a territory (i.e. NOT a country) called Palestine owned by the British Empire. Since then, it ceased to exist.

Jesus tomb is in Jerusalem area.

Answer 5

The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (the DOP), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provided for a transitional period not exceeding five years of Palestinian interim self-government in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Under the DOP, Israel agreed to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A transfer of powers and responsibilities for the Gaza Strip and Jericho took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 4 May 1994 Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area and in additional areas of the West Bank pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement. The DOP provides that Israel will retain responsibility during the transitional period for external and internal security and for public order of settlements and Israeli citizens. Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and West Bank began in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but were derailed by a second intifadah that broke out in September 2000. In April 2003 the Quartet (US, EU, UN, and Russia) presented a roadmap to a final settlement of the conflict by 2005 based on reciprocal steps by the two parties leading to two states, Israel and a democratic Palestine. The proposed date for a permanent status agreement has been postponed indefinitely due to violence and accusations that both sides have not followed through on their commitments. Longtime Palestinian leader Yasir ARAFAT died in November 2004 and Mahmud ABBAS was elected PA president in January 2005, bringing hope of a turning point in the conflict. In February 2005 Israel and the PA agreed to the Sharm el-Sheikh Commitments, focused on security issues, in an effort to move the peace process forward. Progress has been slow because of different interpretations of the verbal agreement by the two sides. In September 2005, Israel withdrew all its settlers and soldiers and dismantled its military facilities in the Gaza Strip and four northern West Bank settlements. Nonetheless, Israel controls maritime, airspace, and most access to the Gaza Strip. An agreement signed by the PA and Israel in November 2005 authorized the reopening of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt under joint PA and Egyptian control, with monitoring provided by the EU.

Palestine is located in Israel, West Bank

Answer 6

Try looking for a geography site for the location. But I know I have seen a good webpage detailing the history of Palestine on the Wikipedia website so search there and it will tell you everything.

Answer 7

gaza is a piece of country it is with the weastren bank out of israel map but in fact they occupied it as all palestain that they named it now israel palestin is an arabian country that been occupied by the british army after the wwII and then they give it to the jewish to make what they call it now israel and those form there country by killing hundereds of thousands of the palestinian people ( who are arabs muslims and christians) by what they do and still doing " deryaseen massacre , kafralqasem massacre and many others not only in palestin but they occupy parts of syria(aljolan) and of lebanon(shab'a) "and enforced many others to leave palestin who are till now live as a refugees in syria , jordan , lebanon and iraq

Answer 8

1)Gaza is a strip of land in Israel where Palestinians live.
2)Find Egypt go NE...Israel...new name for Palestine.
3)See Q2
4) Palestine...sorry I don't know if it still exists...probably,it was a cave in a rock...difficult to destroy.

Answer 9

- No - near gaza - palestine -near calvary - you are also confused about this site- 4 questions for the price of one - take another 15 points of his total - Nice try!!