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The Order granted Palestinian citizenship to "Turkish subjects habitually resident in the territory of Palestine upon the 1st day of August, 1925". [4] Transjordan was specifically excluded. [ 4 ] Under some circumstances citizenship was also conferred on some persons habitually resident abroad, as well as the children or wife of a Palestinian ...
Palestinian citizenship developed during the 20th century, starting during the British Mandate era and in different form following the Oslo Peace process, with the former British Mandate definition (before 1925) [1] including the Jews of Palestine and the Arabs of Jordan, and the latter excluding the Arabs of Jordan (at this point part of the sovereign country of Jordan).
The issuing entity is given as "Palestine" in English, "فلسطين" (Palestine) in Arabic, and "פלשתינה (א״י)" (Palestine plus the acronym for Eretz Yisrael) in Hebrew. Before the citizenship law of 1925, the Government of Palestine issued British passports to those with British nationality, and two types of travel document to others:
The PLO's Palestinian National Covenant of 1964 defines a Palestinian as "the Arab citizens who were living permanently in Palestine until 1947, whether they were expelled from there or remained. Whoever is born to a Palestinian Arab father after this date, within Palestine or outside it, is a Palestinian".
The Palestinian Citizenship Order 1925. Items portrayed in this file depicts. Legal text. inception. 16 September 1925 Gregorian. media type. application/pdf. File ...
The book has been described as providing a vital perspective on Palestinian attempts to achieve independence and statehood. [1]In a review of Khalidi's The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, for Middle East Policy, Philip Wilcox praised the book calling it "Khalidi's brilliant inquiry into why Palestinians have failed to win a state of their own."
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Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, romanized: al-Filasṭīniyyūn) are an Arab ethnonational group native to the region of Palestine. [35] [36] [37] [38]In 1919, Palestinian Muslims and Palestinian Christians constituted 90 percent of the population of Palestine, just before the third wave of Jewish immigration and the setting up of British Mandatory Palestine after World War I.