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    What is the Palestinian Question?  In order to discuss this one must take some history into consideration.  In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly partitioned the land of Palestine into three separate states:  a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone.  This unquestionably displaced many native Palestinians from their former homes to new ones in the area designated as the Arab state.  Needless to say, a large number of Palestinians were now homeless refugees.  Later, on November 22 of 1974, this situation was brought forth to the U.N. General Assembly.  In this meeting, the U.N. issued resolution 3236 (XXIX), which stated that:

    [Palestinians'] rights include:  the right to self-determination without external interference; the right to national independence and sovereignty; and the right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they had been displaced and uprooted (UN.org).

    While these conditions have been partly met, it's still evident that more than twenty-six years later the Palestinians are hard up to get these conditions resolved.  In the meantime, Palestinian refugees are mostly under the care of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (U.N.R.W.A.).  Neighboring Arab nations such as Iran, Syria, and Lebanon have hard, obviously pro-Palestinian views on Israel and Palestine, but their lack of actions towards helping these refugees is another story.  Actions from Arab nations usually come in the form of terrorism, like the Hezbollah, who work out of Syria, Lebanon, and Iran (Savir 288).

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