Palestine information
Mickey Marcus | 12.08.2003 14:38
Hi! I have to fill in this for a quiz about Palestine at school, I can't find the answers on the internet so I was hoping someone here could help me because you all seem to talk about it a lot so you must know what you're talking about.
When was it founded and by whom?
What were its borders?
What was its capital?
What were its major cities?
What constituted the basis of its economy?
What was its form of government?
Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
What was the language of the country of Palestine?
What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
Have they left any artifacts behind?
Do you know of a library where one could find a work of Palestinian literature produced before 1967?
And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
If Palestinians are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
What were its borders?
What was its capital?
What were its major cities?
What constituted the basis of its economy?
What was its form of government?
Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
What was the language of the country of Palestine?
What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
Have they left any artifacts behind?
Do you know of a library where one could find a work of Palestinian literature produced before 1967?
And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
If Palestinians are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
Mickey Marcus
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12.08.2003 15:11
So..... the real question here is whether there ever WAS Palestinian nationalism pre '48 or pre '67 and the answer is yes. But it's a yes than further complicates matters because pre '18 what Palestinian nationalism which existed (and some did) was allied with nascent Jewish nationalism against the Turks (much Zionism from THAT time period envisioned both peoples sharing the land if and when they ever achieved independence). BUT (a big but)during the same period was the phenomenon of Pan-Arabism which was opposed to the Arab world being divided into separate states, which envisioned a return to some universal caliphate, and THIS movement was much more significant even among Palestinians than Palestinian nationalism ever was.
Thus we had no "solution" during the period '48-'67 because the Palestinian focus was on "victory" rather than "independence" -- and the neighboring Arabs states were not interested in supporting a Palestinian independence movement which would have cost THEM control of the territory obtained in the '48 war.
Mike
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