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| | Palestinian homeland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Article 1 Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of the Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation. | | | Article 3 The Palestinian Arab people possess the legal right to their homeland and have the right to determine their destiny after achieving the liberation of their country in accordance with their wishes and entirely of their own accord and will. | | | But when the Palestinians came to be a people separate from other Arab groups is hotly contested. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_homeland
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| | Jewish Post - News - A.B. Yehoshua: Palestinians Do Not Possess Right of Return |
| | While the Palestinian population was expected to grow through natural increase, the Jewish state, according to the international community that authorized its establishment, was to devote itself to finding, a solution to the Jewish problem, taking in Jews of all nationalities, particularly Holocaust refugees. | | | He claims that much of the Palestinian tragedy is of their own making or at the hands of the other Arab nations. | | | This is the beginning of the tragedy of the Palestinians, for which they themselves and the Arab countries carry direct moral responsibility. |
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http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0606/jpn0606f.htm
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| | F L A M E : A Homeland for the Palestinians?: Why they? How about all those others? been revived? |
| | The quest for an independent homeland for the Palestinians is unwarranted because the Palestinians are not a distinct people which never had or even claimed such a homeland, and because the creation of such a homeland would be an existential threat to Israel. | | | There is no such thing as a “Palestinian people.” That is a concept that, by the drumbeat of incessant propaganda, has been foisted on the world. | | | The so-called Palestinians are the same Arabs that live in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. |
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http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_91.html
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| | F L A M E : A "Palestinian Homeland:" Is it a valid aspiration or an unwarranted demand? |
| | The thought of creating a second "Palestinian" state in the "West Bank," in addition to the Palestinian state of Jordan, did not occur to anyone — certainly not to the "Palestinians," not to any of the 22 Arab countries, and not to the rest of the world. | | | By only referring to themselves, but not to the Jews, as "Palestinians," the Arabs attempt to convey legitimacy on themselves and illegitimacy on the Jews, despite the uninterrupted presence of Jews in all part of Palestine since Biblical times. | | | The Arabs living in "Palestine" &; which is Jordan, Israel and the areas administered by Israel &; like to refer to themselves as "Palestinians," and to the Jews living there as "Jews." But all inhabitants of Palestine obviously are Palestinians — either Arab or Jewish Palestinians. |
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http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_15.html
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| | BORR Terrorism News: Obituary: Edward Said, 67, scholar and advocate of Palestinian homeland |
| | Most of the conference's members belonged to the main Palestinian organizations, most importantly the Palestine Liberation Organization led by Yasser Arafat, but some were members of smaller organizations believed responsible for terrorist operations against Israelis and Americans, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. | | | Among the criticisms leveled against Said by Jews and others was his failure to condemn specific acts of terrorism by Palestinian groups, including some that served alongside him on the Palestine National Council. | | | Although he deplored terror attacks by Palestinians, he also argued that important Israeli leaders, like former Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, had been terrorists responsible for the killing of women and children. |
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http://www.borrull.org/e/noticia.php?id=21662
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| | Christian Century: Prison of hope - Impressions - lobbying against Palestinian homeland - Column |
| | Palestinians are not resisting Israeli occupation but pursuing the extermination of Israel--`death to Israel'--as he puts it. | | | Education is critical to any democratic society, something that Sharon clearly acknowledged when he ordered the destruction of Palestinian education records under the guise of "searching for militants." That was not the action of a leader who envisions a civil society for Palestinians. | | | Christison finds that Friedman consistently asserts that the Palestinian intifada is "a reckless, pointless, foolish adventure," chiefly because two years ago at Camp David, Israel and the U.S. gave the Palestinians a credible opening diplomatic offer to end the occupation--an offer that, Friedman claims, "would have satisfied the vast majority of their aspirations for statehood." |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_23_119/ai_94639755
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| | Seeing the Past: Mapping the Past, Recreating the Homeland: Contemporary Palestinian Recollections of pre-1948 Life |
| | But this is not because Palestinians were peasants – approximately half of the Palestinian population in 1948 lived in cities -- rather it is an idealization of such practices that reinforces the land as essential to Palestinian existence and defining who they are and thus is an intrinsic part of their continued struggle. | | | Because Palestinian maps of the pre-1948 landscape consist not only of place names, as is common in cartographic representations, but also of experiences, values, and idealizations, understanding how Palestinians represent pre-1948 spaces and places relates directly to the identities that Palestinians are actively creating in the present. | | | In the film The Nakba the Disaster of 1948, made by Israeli historian Benny Morris, he interviews Azmi Bishara, a Palestinian Israeli representative in the Knesset who critiques the turning of all Palestinian society into village life, at the expense of important cities like Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem. |
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http://metamedia.stanford.edu:3455/31/322
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| | A BRIEF HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND "PALESTINE" |
| | Jewish Palestinian homeland to lay the seeds of what would become in 1946 the Arab Palestinian Nation of "Trans-Jordan," meaning: "across the Jordan River." The Palestinian Arabs now had their "Arab Palestinian" homeland. | | | The Palestinian Jews, forced to form an organized defense against the Arabs, formed the Hagana, the beginnings of the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF]. | | | On May 14, 1948 the Palestinian Jews finally declared their own State of Israel and became "Israelis." On the next day, Israel was at war with seven neighboring Arab armies: Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen. |
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http://www.contenderministries.org/articles/israelhistory.php
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| | CNN.com - Arafat calls for overhaul of Palestinian government - May 15, 2002 |
| | Arafat said the Palestinian leadership should be prepared for elections, but he gave no time frame. | | | This has to be a different authority," said Sharon, who has said in the past he is not against a Palestinian state being established. | | | Sharon -- in a speech Tuesday to the Israeli Knesset -- didn't mention the term "Palestinian state" but said he envisioned the possibility of progress between both peoples in years to come. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/05/15/mideast
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| | Palestine-UN.org |
| | Palestine is an Arab homeland bound by strong Arab national ties to the rest of the Arab Countries and which together form the great Arab homeland. | | | Article 25: This Organization is in charge of the movement of the Palestinian people in its struggle to liberate its homeland in all liberational, organizational, and financial matters, and in all other needs of the Palestine Question in the Arab and international spheres. | | | Article 3: The Palestinian Arab people has the legitimate right to its homeland and isan inseparable part of the Arab Nation. |
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http://www.palestine-un.org/plo/pna_two.html
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| | Pope Trumpets Support for Palestinian Homeland (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Living conditions for these Palestinian refugees — another 2.4 million live outside the camps — are frequently "degrading," the pope said during his visit to the camp. | | | The crowded, fetid camp is one of 59 such facilities, which house 1.5 million Palestinians — including many who left when the state of Israel was created on parts of historic Palestine in 1948. | | | Arafat had earlier told the pope the Palestinian people welcome "his just positions in support of its cause and its rightful presence on its homeland and as a sovereign and independent people." |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/mar00/22/A60016-2000Mar22.html
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| | Yasser Arafat |
| | However, what emerges from a careful analysis of his statements since the outbreak of Palestinian violence in September 2000 is that Arafat has not abandoned his aspirations to bring about the destruction of the State of Israel, and he continues to view demographics as a prime vehicle for achieving this goal. | | | Arafat repeatedly notes that Palestinian soil is a-ribat and that Palestinians are in a state of ribat until the Day of Judgment. | | | In Arafat's view, the creation of the Zionist movement to return the Jewish people to their historic homeland is akin to an "original sin" - a "Zionist-imperialist plot" to which the Palestinians will never acquiesce. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief3-32.htm
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| | NPR : Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat Dies at 75 |
| | Approximately 1,000 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians have been killed. | | | In 1982, Arafat and the PLO were driven from Lebanon by an Israeli invasion and moved the organization's headquarters to Tunis. | | | Arafat's exile in Tunisia caused a vacuum in the Palestinian political leadership, giving rise to Islamic fundamentalism and an Palestinian intifada, or uprising. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4129396
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| | CNN.com - Palestinian leader Arafat dies at 75 - Nov 11, 2004 |
| | PARIS, France (CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, 75, the leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people but was seen by many Israelis as a ruthless terrorist and a roadblock to peace, died early Thursday in Paris. | | | Arafat was first elected head of the PLO in 1969, and by 1974, Arab leaders recognized the group as "the sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people. | | | Erakat called it "heartbreaking" that Arafat died before achieving his goal of an independent Palestinian state, "and the Israeli occupation of our land has not finished yet." But he said Arafat managed to preserve Palestinian national identity during decades without statehood. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/10/arafat.obit
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| | Palestinian Homeland Polls |
| | Many people feel that if the West Bank were under Palestinian control, Iraq or other enemies might be able to use it as a base of operations for attacking Israel. | | | President Bush has said that there ought to be a Palestinian state, provided that it recognizes the right of Israel to exist. | | | More Americans are unsure whether a Palestinian state would threaten Israel's security or not. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/popalhome.html
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| | CMIP - CENTER FOR MONITORING THE IMPACT OF PEACE: REPORTS |
| | Likewise it is not clear that schoolchildren possess such degree of sophistication as enables them, without clear and express guidance, which is not to be found in the textbooks, to differentiate historical, geographical, climatic and topographical entities from political ones bearing the same name. | | | Palestine is part of the greater Arab homeland and the Palestinian people are part of the Arab nation." | | | There are, however, some instances in which the reference is made (within the framework of the homeland) to sites and cities in Israel proper. |
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http://www.edume.org/react/ipcri/3.htm
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| | ireland.com - The Irish Times - FRONT PAGE |
| | Pope John Paul repeated his call for a Palestinian homeland as "a natural right" on his arrival at Bethlehem in the autonomous territories of the Palestinian National Authority yesterday. | | | Witnesses said several people were injured in stone-throwing involving police and supporters and opponents of Mr Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO. | | | Front: Pope repeats call for Palestinian homeland as 'natural right' |
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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2000/0323/fro2.htm
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| | Palestinian Homeland at the Old Empire's Northern Perimeter |
| | It would provide for the Palestinians and their Authority to adopt and execute a policy calling for and practising, as a rule, non-opposition to any and all of Israel's plans for the occupied territories, while focussing instead all their energies on developing what the MVC repeatedly offered to the Palestinian leadership, i.e. | | | Maybe this not only sounds but is outlandish; yet, what alternative is there for temporarily, yet truely and healingly settling over-lapping religious (www.solami.com/slm) and land claims which, ever since the Ottoman Empire break-up, have festered in the Middle East? | | | Even though, since 1992, it has drawn sustained critical mass support among the members of the Mosul Vilayet Council (MVC; www.solami.com/mvc). |
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http://www.solami.com/pal.htm
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| | Hanan Ashrawi Bio |
| | Hanan Ashrawi, a compelling and influential voice in the contemporary theatre of Middle Eastern politics, has been a central player in the struggle for a Palestinian homeland. | | | A tireless campaigner for human rights, she has distinguished herself in both the academic and political arenas. | | | In 1993, with the signing of the peace accords by Arafat and Rabin, Palestinian self-rule was established. |
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http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Ashrawi/Ashrawi.html
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| | Original: Palestinian Homeland [rec.humor.funny] |
| | Officials from the PLO and other Palestinian support organizations were not available for comment. | | | Officials at the United Nations have announced that a choice parcel of real estate will soon be unoccupied, and will be available to become an official homeland for a Palestinian state. | | | According to the UN spokesperson; the parcel, situated between Kuwait and Syria, may be considered to be an ideal location for the foundation of a homeland for a Palestinian State. |
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http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q1/toppals.html
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| | [Info-tech] Wired News : Finally, a Palestinian Homeland (fwd) |
| | The New York Times reported Monday that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is expected to grant the Palestinian National Authority its own domain suffix. | | | 6.Dec.1999 PST Palestinians may be having a tough time establishing an independent state in the Mideast, but soon they'll be officially recognized in cyberspace. | | | Although.ps hardly creates an official Palestinian state, its establishment has a tremendous symbolic effect in an area where symbolism is difficult to escape. |
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http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/info-tech/1999-December/000276.html
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