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| palestine | (n) a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948 |
| palestine | (n) an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism, Syn. Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land |
| palestine islamic jihad | (n) 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, Syn. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini |
| palestine liberation front | (n) a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border, Syn. Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah, PLF |
| palestine liberation organization | (n) 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, Syn. PLO |
| palestine national authority | (n) combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO, Syn. Palestine Authority, Palestinian National Authority |
| palestinian | (n) a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine, Syn. Palestinian Arab |
| palestinian | (adj) of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants, Example: Palestinian guerrillas |
| palestinian hizballah | (n) 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 |
| palestra | (n) a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes, Syn. palaestra |
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