state

November 29, 1947: On this pivotal date, the United Nations ruled in favor of the partition of Palestine into Jew and Arab states. The Arabs flatly rejected the intrusion on their sovereignty, and war was waged in 1948. The subsequent Arab defeat was devastating; their Jewish adversaries protected UN-endowed territory and gained 50% more land. A Palestinian state has yet to be attained…
The battle between Jews and Palestinians has ebbed and flowed to the present. The Israeli state’s powerful military machine grapples regularly with Palestinian insurgents in 2003. Palestinian radicals, in their quest to vanquish Israel from the land they once occupied, have resorted to suicide bombings in the face of insurmountable military odds.
The Palestinian people are a nation without a state.
The legal definition of state is a territorially bound sovereign identity. To expound, a state must have distinct boundaries (territorially bound) and must be the ultimate source of l...