Palestine

//ˈpæləˌstaɪn//

"Palestine" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Palestine is called "Filastin" in Arabic.

There were Jews in Arab countries before the partition of Palestine.

Free Palestine!

Palestine should be the country of all those who wish to live there peacefully, not a land destined to a religious or ethnic group at the expense of indigenous groups.

Palestine has the indisputable right to defend its territory.

We won a victory for Palestine here tonight.

Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.

To solve the problem of Palestine it would be necessary for the Palestinians to abandon the so-called Palestinian Authority and unite around a common political front to defend the rights of all Palestinians, including the refugees and their descendants who want to return to Palestine. It would also be necessary for them to definitively abandon the so-called "two-state solution," which in my opinion is very similar to the racist solution to South Africa that consisted of dividing South Africa into territories for white people and into territories supposedly "autonomous" or "independent" for the native peoples.

The Palestinians are the indigenous people of Palestine.

Palestine and Israel are the same land.

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Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.

Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.

Gad, in ancient geography, a district of Transjordan Palestine, situated between Gilead and the kingdom of Bashan on the north, and that of the Amorites to the south, having the Jordan to the west, and bounded by various nations on the east, so called from the tribe of that name.

In the west, moreover, as we have seen, he crushed Damascus, and forced Phenicia, Edom, the kingdom of Israel, and "Palestine" or Philistia, to continue the tribute they had agreed to pay Shalmaneser II.

The Paleſtines aſſailing the Hebrewes, are overcome by them in battell.

[…] Iſaac went to Abimelech king of the Paleſtines to Gerara.

The Paleſtines, by extraordinary uſury, at fifty per cent. had poſſeſſed themſelves of almoſt all the riches of the country.

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