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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 2:38:51 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 3:24:35 GMT -7
The Israeli-Jewish narrative of Hebron
BBC Arabic
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 3:45:02 GMT -7
Israeli forces fired live rounds and tear gas at Palestinian protesters and journalists as they were filming during a protest in Ramallah, Friday. Protesters set fire to an Israeli military vehicle as it shot tear gas at them during the clashes. Journalists were caught up in the confrontation as tear gas swamped the area.
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 5:03:48 GMT -7
This is an incredibly interesting historical documentary. I Hope you have time or take time to watch it.
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Post by Jaga on Apr 16, 2019 5:21:29 GMT -7
Pieter, thank you. I will try to watch it (Palestinian story) in the afternoon.
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 5:27:13 GMT -7
Palestinians of Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine (the British Mandate for Palestine)Encyclopedia BritannicaCitrus packers. Moved from one orchard to the next, according to demand, erecting tents. Credit: Courtesy of the Albert family. Source: Haaretz newspaper.Nearly 1,400,000 Arabs lived in Palestine when the 1948 Arab–Israeli War broke out. Estimates of the number of Arabs displaced from their original homes, villages, and neighbourhoods during the period from December 1947 to January 1949 range from about 520,000 to about 1,000,000; there is general consensus, however, that the actual number was more than 600,000 and likely exceeded 700,000. Some 276,000 moved to the West Bank; by 1949 more than half the prewar Arab population of Palestine lived in the West Bank (from 400,000 in 1947 to more than 700,000 in 1948/49). Between 160,000 and 190,000 fled to the Gaza Strip. More than one-fifth of Palestinian Arabs left Palestine altogether. About 100,000 of these went to Lebanon, 100,000 to Jordan, between 75,000 and 90,000 to Syria, 7,000 to 10,000 to Egypt, and 4,000 to Iraq.The term “Palestinian”A Palestinian farmer on his land in the West BankHenceforth the term Palestinian will be used when referring to the Arabs of the former mandated Palestine, excluding Israel. Although the Arabs of Palestine had been creating and developing a Palestinian identity for about 200 years, the idea that Palestinians form a distinct people is relatively recent. The Arabs living in Palestine had never had a separate state. Until the establishment of Israel, the term Palestinian was used by Jews and foreigners to describe the inhabitants of Palestine and had only begun to be used by the Arabs themselves at the turn of the 20th century. With the Arab world in a period of renaissance popularizing notions of Arab unity and nationalism amid the decline of the Ottoman Empire, most saw themselves as part of the larger Arab or Muslim community. The Arabs of Palestine began widely using the term Palestinian starting in the pre-World War I period to indicate the nationalist concept of a Palestinian people. But after 1948—and even more so after 1967—for Palestinians themselves the term came to signify not only a place of origin but, more importantly, a sense of a shared past and future in the form of a Palestinian state.A Palestinian woman mourns the destruction of olive trees by Israeli settlers on the West Bank.Palestinians according to WikipediaNovember 29 2018 international day of solidarity with the Palestinian peopleThe Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, Hebrew: פָלַסְטִינִים) or Palestinian Arabs (Arabic: الفلسطينيين العرب, ạl-flsṭynyyn ạl-ʿrb), are an ethnonational group comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab Despite various wars and exoduses (such as that in 1948), roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in historic Palestine, the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel. In this combined area, as of 2005, Palestinians constituted 49% of all inhabitants, encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million), the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 -inclusive East-Jerusalem- versus about 600,000 Jewish Israeli citizens, which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem) and 20.8% of the population of Israel proper as Arab citizens of Israel. Many are Palestinian refugees or internally displaced Palestinians, including more than a million in the Gaza Strip, about 750,000 in the West Bank and about 250,000 in Israel proper. Of the Palestinian population who live abroad, known as the Palestinian diaspora, more than half are stateless, lacking citizenship in any country. Between 2.1 and 3.24 million of the diaspora population live in neighboring Jordan, over 1 million live between Syria and Lebanon and about 750,000 live in Saudi Arabia, with Chile's half a million representing the largest concentration outside the Middle East.
Palestinian women on the beach of the Gaza Strip
Palestinian Christians and Muslims constituted 90% of the population of Palestine in 1919, just before the third wave of Jewish immigration under the post-WW1 British Mandatory Authority, opposition to which spurred the consolidation of a unified national identity, fragmented as it was by regional, class, religious and family differences. The history of a distinct Palestinian national identity is a disputed issue amongst scholars. Legal historian Assaf Likhovski states that the prevailing view is that Palestinian identity originated in the early decades of the 20th century, when an embryonic desire among Palestinians for self-government in the face of generalized fears that Zionism would lead to a Jewish state and the dispossession of the Arab majority crystallised among most editors, Christian and Muslim, of local newspapers. "Palestinian" was used to refer to the nationalist concept of a Palestinian people by Palestinian Arabs in a limited way until World War I. After the creation of the State of Israel, the exodus of 1948 and more so after the exodus of 1967, the term came to signify not only a place of origin but also the sense of a shared past and future in the form of a Palestinian state. Modern Palestinian identity now encompasses the heritage of all ages from biblical times up to the Ottoman period.
A street scene in Gaza
Founded in 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is an umbrella organization for groups that represent the Palestinian people before international states. The Palestinian National Authority, officially established in 1994 as a result of the Oslo Accords, is an interim administrative body nominally responsible for governance in Palestinian population centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Since 1978, the United Nations has observed an annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. According to Perry Anderson, it is estimated that half of the population in the Palestinian territories are refugees and that they have collectively suffered approximately US$300 billion in property losses due to Israeli confiscations, at 2008–09 prices.An old Palestinan Arab man in traditional Palestinian Arab dress with a keffiyeh ((Arabic: كُوفِيَّة kūfiyyah, meaning "from the city of Kufa"), a traditional Middle Eastern headdress worn in the Middle East with origins from the Fertile Crescent (Iraq and the Levant) fashioned from a square scarf, usually made of cotton.
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 6:21:40 GMT -7
Palestine Street
Part 1
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 6:24:08 GMT -7
Part 2
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 6:24:50 GMT -7
Part 3
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 6:32:31 GMT -7
Part 4
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 11:09:00 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 13:02:32 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 13:06:49 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 13:09:29 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 16, 2019 13:14:21 GMT -7
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