palestine
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A former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean;
Divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948 (synset 108816623)domain member region:- al-asifa, al-fatah, fatah - a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups
- al nathir - a Palestinian terrorist organization formed in 2002 and linked to Fatah movement of Yasser Arafat
- democratic front for the liberation of palestine, dflp, pdflp, popular democratic front for the liberation of palestine - a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
- abu nidal organization, ano, arab revolutionary brigades, black september, fatah revolutionary council, fatah-rc, revolutionary organization of socialist muslims - a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
- forces of umar al-mukhtar, umar al-mukhtar forces - a little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis; seeks to defeat Israel and liberate southern Lebanon, Palestine, and Golan Heights
- harakat al-jihad al-islami al-filastini, palestine islamic jihad, palestinian islamic jihad, pij - a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas
- palestinian hizballah - a little known Palestinian group comprised of members of Hamas and Tanzim with suspected ties to the Lebanese Hizballah; responsible for suicide bombings in Israel
- pflp, popular front for the liberation of palestine - a terrorist group of limited popularity formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War; combined Marxist-Leninist ideology with Palestinian nationalism; used terrorism to gain attention for their cause; hoped to eliminate the state of Israel
- palestine liberation organization, plo - a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority
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An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea;
A place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism (synset 108816234)domain member region: chebab - a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelisis an instance of: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earthhas:- juda, judah - an ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center
- judaea, judea - the southern part of ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah; a Roman province at the time of Christ
- samaria - an ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel; the site is in present-day northwestern Jordan
- philistia - an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine that was strategically located on a trade route between Syria and Egypt; important in biblical times
- jordan, jordan river - a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan
is a part of: asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
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