palestine
IPA: pˈæɫʌstaɪn
Root Word: Palestine
noun
- The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
- A partly-recognized country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the West Bank and Gaza Strip, taken collectively, with or without other territorial claims, especially if considered to be (the site of) the State of Palestine.
- The territory of the current State of Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip combined, the homeland of the Palestinian people.
- (historical, technical) A British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 3.
- (historical, technical, rare) The British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan, which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan).
- (historical) Any of four Ancient Roman and Byzantine provinces in the eastern Mediterranean: Syria Palaestina, Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Salutaris.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas.
- A community in Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- A village in Crawford County, Illinois.
- A township in Woodford County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Brookville Township, Franklin County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Harrison Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
- An extinct town in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
- A township in Story County, Iowa.
- A township in Cooper County, Missouri.
- A village in Darke County, Ohio.
- A city, the county seat of Anderson County, Texas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.
- A community in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
- A village in Over Wallop parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2640).
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Examples of "palestine" in Sentences
- The Palestine post took note of the proclamation.
- Therefore, the Jews had a preemptive right to Palestine.
- The Palestine war continues by dint of the refugees only.
- See Saddam was giving 10k to families of martyrs in palestine.
- These militate for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
- I respectfully disagree with the omission of the term Palestine.
- The byproduct of restoring Palestine may be the destruction of Israel.
- After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates.
- One of the most urgent problems concerned the future of the Palestine Mandate.
- Palestine in its palmiest days could not have supported two millions of people.
- We are trying to help families develop and be independent of the aid system nestled in Palestine.
- During WW2, Arab leaders from North Africa, via 'palestine' to Iraq betrayed Britain and collaborated with the Nazis.
- It is the interest of Israeli jews to see all their neighbors destroyed at the expense of USA and they continue their genocide in palestine and lebanon.
- When I go into to college and the subject of 'palestine' comes up .... the undiluted hatred for Israel that comes out of the students mouths is more than worrying.
- July 17th, 2006 at 7: 52 pm freeman says: my dear dite, hamas is the elected gov’t in palestine and the first isreali’s were also terrorists who bombed public places as I recall.
- And as for your ceaseless comparisons between this situation in palestine and the historical situation with the native americans, are you saying that you favor a policy that is tantamount to genocide?
- As soon as falsified and exaggerated reports of civilian casualties start coming in from “unknown Palestinian eye witnesses, †the catatonic international community awakes from its coma and starts cracking on Israel what is this, It seems to me that Isreal is good guy while the palestine is the killer.
- Settlements in occupied land are widely regarded as illegal under international law. all of this ethnic cleansing is based on the racist idea that only jews have a right to live in palestine, which is not a jewish land, but arab land. to get some context on the bigger picture watch this clip of stories from the arab media on the united nations conference against racism:
- As i said to an employer once when talking about that part of the world there is a lot of nonsense out there; among the canards is the implication that there was once an arabic state called palestine with a capital of jerusalem! also it wasnt the intention of the arab states in 1948 they had won against israel they planned to carve it up among themselves NOT to create a palestinian state.
- Palestine SkyNEWS TV cameras have captured the distressing moment a five-year-old Palestinian boy sees his father arrested for stealing water Khaled Jabari wails in torment and confusion as Israeli soldiers drag away his father Fadel in the palestine district of Hebron Walking barefoot, the youngster becomes hysterical as he pleads with the troops not to take his father away Fadel is driven away in a four-wheel-drive.
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