Example sentences for: palestine

How can you use “palestine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By 1946, Jews owned only 7 percent of Palestine, but the perceived threat of displacement was widespread among Arabs.

  • After the Ottoman Empire's defeat in World War I, Britain acquired Palestine and promised (in the Balfour Declaration) the creation of a Jewish state.

  • These writings, his relationship with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, and his many years of service in the Palestine National Council (the now-defunct Palestinian parliament in exile, from which he resigned in 1991 after being diagnosed with leukemia) have invited smears and misrepresentations: A decade ago Commentary branded him "The Professor of Terror."

  • Weizmann was an important figure in the negotiations with the British government that led to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, supporting the idea of a Jewish “national home” in Palestine that also respected the rights of existing non-Jewish people already living there.

  • Among the peasantry, rumors spread alleging an Anglo-Jewish conspiracy to remove Muslims from Palestine.


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