Palestinians certain to win recognition as a state

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15. well, Israelis self-identify themselves as "the Jewish State"

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sometimes as a precursor for emphasizing as "the only Jewish state" (and maybe with some variation of the addendum of "in the middle of a sea of hostile Arab savages&quot , somewhat in the same sense that Hindutva nationalists in India refer to Nepal as "the only Hindu state". There's a slight bit more concealed bitterness in that latter example, but it's still somewhat analogous.

Palestinians are not strictly Muslim (and the very specific phraseology of "an Islamic state" is quite different from just being a country with Muslims), something like 5-10% of the Palestinians are Christian--some with lineages dating back before the first wave of Crusader invasions (not to be confused with the present ones). Many of the leaders of the early Palestinian resistance factions and leftist movements are/were Christian.