What is a Palestinian?

Question

I do not see this country on any maps? How can we really tell if there is a group? Aren't these people Jordanian?

Answer 1

They are Arabic/Middle Eastern people who have no homeland.

I don't know how else to discribe them.

Answer 2

To ask a question like this u must be from Israel.

That is how Israelis think.

Sharon said those words to Arafat.  Israel is not Palestine but Jordan is.

Answer 3

Jon's answer is typical emotional claptrap.

Colonists used force to push Native Americans from their land.  

Jews began returning to Israel many decades before Israel was created by the UN and began purchasing land from the landowners.

Answer 4

A Palestinian is a practice target for IDF forces.  Good for live-fire exercises.

Answer 5

People who live in the part of what was Palestine that did not become Israel.

Answer 6

No. By the Balfour declaration and the UN vote on creating Israel, what was Palestine became politically two different nations - Israel and Trans Jordan, which subsequently became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. People who are called "Palestinian" today live in parts of what was Palestine but not the part that became Israel.

Answer 7

One way to tell a Palestinian from others there in the region is what they wear on their head. If you see a picnic table cloth on their head, then they are a Palestinian.

Answer 8

I am. I live in Palestine TX.

Answer 9

People who were made homeless in 1948

Answer 10

I LIVE IN PALESTINE TX  TOO

Answer 11

When Israel was founded, the Palestinians are who lived on the land that the Israelis claimed, and the descendants of those people.  A *bit* like native Americans in that sense, in that they're being ousted from their land just like the native Americans were.

They're not Jordanian - they don't live in Jordan.

Answer 12

If you desire to see where Palestine is, on a map, all you need to do is look at the maps of the world in any of the Christian Bibles that were published before 1948- you will see that the land that Israel is now on, is the same land= in the Bibles that were published after 1948, the name on the land is Israel, because the state of Israel was created officially in 1948- This is why I am afraid there will never be peace in the mid-east- Israel will never give up an inch of it's land, and the Palestinians will never give up trying to get it back. There is no answer to this problem. It's odd that when the mid east problems are discussed, none of the western media will ever bring this fact up.

I don't know if i made myself clear - the maps in the pre 1948 bibles show the land that Israel now occupies, was known as Palestine- the homeland of the Palestinians.

Answer 13

The name Palestine was first used by the Romans.  Later (1900 years) the British gave that part of the world control by them that name.  The people in the land did not call themselves Palestinians.  Instead they thought of themselves as Arabic, Syrian,  Egyptian and Jordan.  They refused to be call a British occupied name.  They held papers and passports from those different countries not because they had move from them but because the whole area was in a fluid state after the fall of the Ottoman Turk Empire at the first of the last century.

When the UN voted in the nation of Israel in 1948.  All of the surrounding Arabic Muslim nations attacked and tried to destroy it.  These people for a number of reasons mostly religious adopted the name Palestine to legitimize their claim on the land.  They did not exist before Israel became a nation.  The Palestinians of today are only there to kick out or kill all the Jews.  As soon as they do it will become part of Jordan, Syria and Egypt.  I am not making this up review the links below.  There are many many others if you what to know the truth you need to study history from several sources.