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Palestinian Territories. What are the Palestinian Territories?. Palestinian territories are defined as the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Basic Facts. Population: 4.3 million Major Language is Arabic Major Religion is Islam Life Expectancy: 75 years (women), 72 years (men) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Palestinian Territories
What are the Palestinian Territories?
Palestinian territories are defined as the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
Basic Facts
Population: 4.3 million
Major Language is Arabic
Major Religion is Islam
Life Expectancy: 75 years (women), 72 years (men)
Main Export is citrus
Basic Facts continued…
West Bank is 75% Muslim, 17% Jewish, 8% Christian and other
Gaza Strip is 98.7% Muslim
West Bank is 2,3o5 square miles and the Gaza Strip is 141 square miles
Palestinian leader is Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah faction.
Hamas, the militant Islamic group, gained control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
60 Minutes Video
After the decline of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled Palestine for four centuries, Palestine was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine in 1922
The division of this mandate and the creation of Israel in 1948, which stemmed from a Zionist movement to create a homeland for Jews from around the world, led to disputes about land
The key issues in the conflict include mutual recognition, borders, security, water rights, control of Jerusalem, land rights, and legalities concerning refugees
“Gaza Refugee Camps: Poverty and No Privacy”
by Eman Jomaa
Palestine Telegraph- first online newspaper based out of the Gaza Strip
Staff includes professional journalists as well as unpaid citizen journalists
"I have no dreams; there is no place for my dreams in this depressing situation."
“New York Times Fails to Disclose Possible Conflict of Interest” by Bruno
Nota
ABC News Ethan Bronner- Jerusalem bureau chief at the New York
Times has a son that is enlisted in the Israeli Defense Forces
Bill Keller, NY Times executive editor, and Clark Hoyt, NY Times public editor, disagree over this matter
“Palestinian Force makes gains in West Bank”
by Josef Federman
Washington PostNational Security Forces helping to restore
law and order in West BankOne of six Palestinian security agencies
under command of Mahmoud AbbasEconomy beginning to recover in cities where
they have taken controlUS sponsored training
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Castelnuovo, Rita. Photograph. New York Times. 2 Sept. 2007. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/world/middleeast/02westbank.html>.
"Demographics of the Palestinian territories -.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 09 Feb. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiDemographics_of_the_Palestinian_territories#Population>.
Works Cited continued
Federman, Josef. "Palestinian Force Makes Gain in West Bank." The Washington Post. The Washington Post Company, 9 Feb. 2010. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020900268.html>.
Flag of Palestine. Digital image. WorldAtlas.com. Web. http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/flags/countrys/mideast/palstine.htm.
Israeli and Palestinian Flags with Guns. Digital image. ABC News: The World Newser. ABC News. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://
blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/02/new-york-times- fails-to-disclose-possible-conflict-of-interest.html>.
"Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli?Palestinian_conflict>.
Works Cited continued
Jomaa, Eman, ed. "Gaza Refugee Camps: Poverty And No Privacy." The Palestine Telegraph. 8 Feb. 2010. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://www.paltelegraph.com/diaries/featured-articles/4087-gaza-refugee-camps-poverty-and-no-privacy>.
Jomaa, Eman. Photograph. The Palestine Telegraph. 8 Feb. 2010. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://www.paltelegraph.com/diaries/featured-
articles/4087-gaza-refugee-camps-poverty-and-no-privacy>.
Nota, Bruno. "New York Times Fails to Disclose Possible Conflict of Interest." ABC News: The World Newser. ABC News, 8 Feb. 2010. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/02/new-york-times-fails-to- disclose-possible-conflict-of-interest.html>.
"The Palestinian Territories." Map. The Lonely Planet. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http:// www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/middle-east/the-palestinian-territories/ map_of_the-palestinian-territories.jpg>.
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Picture of Palestinian women in Ramallah. Photograph. Travel Adventures. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/images/palestinian-people02.jpg>.
Todras-Whitehill, Tara. Photograph. The Washington Post. 9 Feb. 2010. Web. 9 Feb. 2010. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020900268.html>.
"UNICEF - At a glance: Occupied Palestinian Territory - The big picture." UNICEF. 11 Sept. 2006. Web. 09 Feb. 2010. <http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/oPt.html>.