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Palestinians are an Arab people, whose traditions, history and ethinicity is centered on land formerlly in the Bristish Mandate of Palestine; i.e. present-day Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank and Gaza) and surrounding countries such as Iraq. (really Iraq? That's a long way from Palestine. I'd guess that any Palestinians that far from home are refugees.) Palestinians are mostly Muslim, but there are many Christian Palestinians as well. |
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Palestinians are an Arab people, whose traditions, history and ethinicity is centered on land formerlly in the British Mandate of Palestine; i.e. present-day Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank and Gaza). Palestinians are mostly Muslim, but there are many who are from Palestine and are Christian as well (See: Palestine/Christian). |
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At midnight on 14 May [1948], when the last British soldiers were departing and the new state was proclaimed, the Zionists had captured the the Arab quarters of west Jerusalem and infiltrated the old city; they had taken Jaffa and opened a corridor between the coats and Jerusalem; and they had destroyed dozens of Arab villages. In early April their most well publicized crime had been committed: the massacre of 254 civillians of Deir Yassin. .... |
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At midnight on [14 May 1948]?, when the last British soldiers were departing and the new state was proclaimed, the Zionists had captured the the Arab quarters of west Jerusalem and infiltrated the old city; they had taken Jaffa and opened a corridor between the coats and Jerusalem; and they had destroyed dozens of Arab villages. In early April their most well publicized crime had been committed: the massacre of 254 civillians of Deir Yassin. .... |
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(Info on the Stern gang and Irgun in relationship to this issue might be valid, if sources are supplied. The previous entry excorciated these groups on a rumor that someone had once heard. That is not Encyclopaedia quality reporting.) |
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