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Questions related to the government or politics regarding the State of Palestine.

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Why is it important for Israel that Palestine not be connected by land with Jordan?

Following the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, Hamas gained power there. Hamas and other militant groups received shipments of foreign rockets and other weapons, largely from Iran. Such rockets w …
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Does the UN recognize the borders of the 1947 Palestine partition? Or the 1949 armistice bor...

The UN takes no explicit position on the borders of Israel, other than: Israel is an independent state (and thus, presumably, has some territorial extent). Any land controlled in 1967 or later is co …
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Does the UN recognize the borders of the 1947 Palestine partition? Or the 1949 armistice bor...

Israel controlled a larger area by the 1949 armistice than the 1947 partition envisioned. However, the 1949 armistice lines are now widely understood as delimiting "Israel Proper". Was Israeli contr …
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Does Britain have de jure authority over the West Bank and Gaza?

That is, did the British Mandate of Palestine legally end? Britain was granted a "mandate" over Palestine by the League of Nations from 1923, "until such time as [it is] able to stand alone". … So apparently neither Israel nor (still inchoate) Palestine are sovereign. Did the British authority ever legally end, and if so, how? …
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