A Palestinian Arab (or Arab Palestinian) is an Arab of Palestine - either the historical region of Palestine or any of the political divisions designated as "Palestine". The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ) are a large and heterogeneous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa, originating in the Arabian Peninsula of southwest Asia. ... Palestine is the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east. ...
Journalists, historians and some diplomats or government officials frequently refer to Palestianian Arabs as "Palestinians" for short.
The term Palestine and the related term Palestinian have several overlapping (and occasionally contradictory) definitions. ... The Palestinians are a mainly Arabic-speaking people with family origins mainly in Palestine. ... The British Mandate of Palestine was a swathe of territory in the Middle East, formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, which the League of Nations entrusted to the United Kingdom to administer in the aftermath of World War I as a Mandate Territory. ...
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Palestinian National Charter as published in Basic Political Documents of the Armed Palestinian Resistance Movement
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced on October 20, 2004 that the number of Palestinians worldwide at the end of 2003 is 9.6 million, an increase of 800,000 since 2001.
The Arab summit meeting in Rabat, Morocco in October 1974 stated that the PLO is the "sole legitimate representation of the Palestinian people" (i.e., of PalestinianArabs).
Palestinian citizens of Israel have political representation in the Knesset (Israeli parliament).
The 'Arab leaders' endorsement of the refugee flight' was the official line taken by the governments of Israel and mainstream Israeli Historians, assigning the main responsibility for the exodus to calls made by local and foreign Arab leaders.
Before the Arab invasion, it explains the exodus as a result of the crumbling Arab social structure, and after the invasion as a result of actions by the Israeli army during the campaign in the Galilee and Negev.
He argued that there was an omnipresent understanding during the war that as many PalestinianArabs as possible had to be transferred out of the Jewish state, and that that understanding stood behind many of the expulsions that the commanders on the field carried out.
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