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The State of Palestine (Arabic: دولة فلسطين, transliteration: Dawla Filasṭīn) was proclaimed on November 15, 1988 by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, in Algiers, by a vote of 253-46, with 10 abstentions. The declaration invoked the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and UN General Assembly Resolution 181 in support of its claim to a "State of Palestine on our Palestinian territory with its capital Jerusalem". It became the most diplomatically successful of a number of efforts to create a Palestinian state, despite the fact that, because the State of Palestine did not have control over any territory at the time, it did not fulfill the typical requirement of an autonomous state — being in possession of sovereign territory. Currently, the Palestinian National Authority, along with the European Union and the Arab League, envision the establishment of a State of Palestine to include all or part of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, under a democratically elected and transparent government.

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Palestinian Arabic is a Levantine Arabic dialect subgroup spoken by the Palestinian people. Palestinian rural dialects have some very distinctive features (particularly the pronunctiation of qaf as kaf) which set them off from other Arabic varieties, but Palestinian urban dialects are much more similar to the northern Levantine dialects of Syria and Lebanon.

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, located in the Old City of East Jerusalem.

History, people, placesedit

The history of the region of Palestine stretches back more than 6,000 years.

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June 25, 2006

Palestinian forces respond to the detention of the Muamar brothers on June 24 by detaining Gilad Shalit. The two incidents blow up into the 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict and the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Most mainstream media outlets then ignore the detention of the Muamar brothers and claim that the detention of Shalit was the cassus belli of the 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict and the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

June 24, 2006

Israeli forces detain Osama and Mustafa Muamar in Gaza and take them to an undisclosed location.

July 20, 2005 (Wednesday)

Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Mohammed Dahlan and others claim that Hamas is trying to carry out a military coup to replace the PA.

(Haaretz)

July 20, 2005 (Wednesday)

23 Palestinians are wounded in Gaza clashes between Hamas and Fatah

(Arabic News)

July 20, 2005 (Wednesday)

The US reports that it is planning an International Summit to discuss the future of Palestine following the Gaza disengagement.

(Haaretz)

Did you know... edit

... that Al-Muqaddasi, born in Jerusalem, was a leading medieval geographer?
... that Khaled Mardam-Bey, the creator of mIRC, is half-Palestinian?
... that Antonio Saca, president of El Salvador, is of Palestinian descent?

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Palestinian culture is closely related to the culture of other Levantine countries but is distinct in its own way. Palestinian Arabic is easily recognizable. Famous Palestinians include the poet Mahmoud Darwish and the scholar Edward Said. Palestinian music is well-known throughout the Arab world.