We provide here a snapshot of what Palestine meant at the time of our ninth edition, decades before the Israeli-Palestinian conflict began. The entry is a particularly valuable artifact, not only because it predates today’s conflict, but also because of when it was written.
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii][g] is a country in West Asia. It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the Palestinian territories, or occupied Palestinian territory.
While Palestine's boundaries have changed throughout history, it has generally comprised the southern portion of the wider Syria or Levant region. As the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, Palestine has been a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics.
Palestine, region of Southwest Asia along the eastern Mediterranean, generally regarded as consisting of the southern coastal area between Egypt, where Asia meets Africa, and Tyre, which in ancient times was the most prominent of the Phoenician city-states.
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Following the 1918 fall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Palestine typically referred to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Much of this land is now part of...
The State of Palestine is a de jure sovereign state, located in Western Asia and comprising of the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It is geographically positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth.
Will 2026 be year of electoral change in Palestine? A crowded 2026 election calendar announced by President Mahmoud Abbas — spanning municipal, PNC and Fatah votes — is billed as a long-delayed reform push but leaves unresolved whether Palestinians will see genuine political renewal or a managed process that entrenches existing power ...