[
US
/ˌpæɫɪˈstɪniən/
]
NOUN
- a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants
Palestinian guerrillas
How To Use Palestinian In A Sentence
- China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
- Second, if a Palestinian state is recognized along the 1967 lines in point of fact, nothing more than the 1949 armistice lines, this undermines UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and the Camp David Accords, which call for a negotiated outcome and do not predetermine final boundaries. David Harris: Support Peace: Oppose Palestinian UN Gambit
- This pattern has developed into a state that conflict scholars label intractable and that mathematicians call an attractor: the Israel-Palestinian conflict has thus become an intractable attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
- We really don't want to be the overlords of the Palestinian population.
- Everyone who uses those arguments has already assumed the longterm disfranchisement and marginalization of that majority of the Palestinian people forced to live in complete exile from their homeland for, in many cases, the past 60 years ... Charlottesville Blogs
- And Israel has again started to crack down on Palestinian militants.
- Parking for the venue, the Palestinian people have made announcements to persuade, but no enforcement power to prevent reversals .
- And will he make clear, by his word and deed, that his goal in this conflict is Palestinian statehood, which is American policy and American's goal, and not the destruction of Israel, which, of course, America could never accept. CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2002
- This afternoon the Palestinians held an impromptu press conference.
- Palestinian Authority has launched a new security initiative in the West Bank.
