They were called Mandatory Palestine as that label existed from ancient times. The label applied to all religions of people there including Jews. After 1948 it has applied only to Muslims and Christians. Even if you consider the origins of the identity to be 1964 when the PLO was formed, its still been 3 generations of people?
It was a name on a map in a textbook in the UK.
Most of those are you, Shazi. Your computer skills are pretty shitty.
As I said, even if that identity was conjured up only in 64', it is very real today. For any way forward, that is all that matters.
The people have been indigeneous for 1000s of years. You may say they have adopted a new identity only for 3 generations or argue that their identity is atleast as old as their ancestry. Does the distinction matter for the future when it is accepted by even the parties in conflict that the other identity exists?
The Palestine pound (Arabic: جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, junayh filastini; Hebrew: פוּנְט פַּלֶשְׂתִינָאִי (א״י), romanized: funt palestina'i (eretz-yisra'eli) or Hebrew: לירה (א״י), romanized: lira eretz-yisra'elit; Sign: £P[1][2][improper synthesis?]) was the currency of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1 November 1927 to 14 May 1948, and of the State of Israel between 15 May 1948 and 23 June 1952, when it was replaced with the Israeli pound.
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 The front cover of a Mandatory Palestine passport |
Immaterial to the zionist declaration that they were going to colonize Palestine.
Your opinion is worthless.
I apologize, I should have clarified. I personally consider the label to predate Israel's formation. But if you protest, I will agree, as I did with Leimonis, for the sake of our discussion that the identity was conceived with the formation of the PLO in 1964. I dont see either position as weakening the fact that today the Palestinian identity is very real.
I would dispute that.
That's my point, Dandy.Mandatory Palestine passports were travel documents issued by British authorities in Mandatory Palestine to residents between 1925 and 1948. The first brown-covered passport appeared around 1927, following the issue of the Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925. From 1926 to 1935 alone approximately 70,000 of such travel documents were issued.[1]
Mandatory Palestine passport
The front cover of a Mandatory Palestine passport
poor choice of words....as return to ancestral land is not colonizing
I would dispute that.
The 3 H's are terror groups and are not representative of the average Palestinian. The average Palestinian does hold the identity of a Palestinian today.
It wasn't their ancestral lands.
