The Palestinians are an Arab national group from the Southern Levant, predominantly the modern State of Israel.
Palestinians are predominantly Sunni Muslims, thought there are a minority of Christian and Shia Palestinians, as well as Druze and Samaritians that identify as Palestinian. There is dispute about when the Palestinian identity coalesced, be it in the post- or pre-war periods, and if it was an internal development or in direct response to the zionist movement.
The war that established Israel between Jewish and Arab forces resulted in a mass displacement of Palestinian Arabs. There is a significant diaspora of Palesitnians, especially in neighbouring Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs, of which many also identify as Palestinian. Many Diaspora Palesitnians, as well as those from families displaced from beyond the 1948 armistice lines, identify as refugees.
Many Palestinian political movements lay claim to all the land of Israel as the future Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority is one of the pirmary bodies that governs the Palestinians, with varying degrees of control in the West Bank. Palestinians have autonomy in Gaza, which is under the rule of Hamas.
Nobody has the guts to remark upon the death-glorifying political culture of the Palestinians that repeatedly chooses violence over negotiations.
One Palestinian killed as hilltop youth set fire to cars, homes in Turmus Aiya • Six settlers injured by rocks thrown after entering West Bank village
Iranian top security official Ali Akbar Ahmadian met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Eight-hour clashes between the IDF and Palestinian gunmen left several soldiers wounded and at least five Palestinians dead.
The students chanted slogans in which they accused the PA of carrying out politically-motivated arrests.
Everyday heroes. That’s what I call them. Ordinary, common citizens from all walks of life who somehow summon up extraordinary courage and uncommon determination to face down danger.
Battir is named for Betar (sometimes spelled Beitar), the rugged hill location of a Jewish battle for human freedom.
Nobody can predict the outcome of the current struggle between Israel's Revisionist, nationalistic right and the revisioning, pluralistic center.
A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.
East Side has settlers, vengeful Palestinians, collaborators at the mercy of the Shin Bet, and Greek Orthodox Church leaders – some greedy, some trying to maintain independence.
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