Palestine: 10 Facts to Know About This Highly Contentious Word

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Palestine is a confusing term these days.  A Vox news article is a recent example of the way the word Palestine is erroneously used when it opined that Palestine is an alternative name for Israel and that Palestinians are a distinct group of Arabs who are “occupied” by Jews. Or take Palestinian National Council President Rawhi Fattouh, who asserts Palestinians are a distinct people who’ve been living in a national called Palestine for one and half million years.  Or US Representative Ilhan Omar, who’d retweeted the false assertion that Jesus was “a Palestinian man.”  The United Nations echoes this view, asserting that the area of present-day Israel has been called “Palestine” from time immemorial.

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