(newspaper unidentified) · 2 September 1982

CP-1982-006

What Is 'Palestine,' Anyway?

George F. Will

Transcribed from the clipping

George F. Will, syndicated: “A small dam of words burst last Sunday and the wave that washed over the Arab-Israeli dispute rinsed a large rock that lies in the path of peace… revealed deep Arab disagreement even about what the word ‘Palestine’ designates.” The column argues: “The first modern use of the word ‘Palestine’ to designate a specific territory was for the territory mandated to British when the Ottoman empire collapsed in 1918.” It closes: “Most Palestinians are still there, in Palestine.”

Context added by this archive

One syndicated column, three papers, three headlines — the framing pattern working on opinion rather than news.

Correction to the caption this arrived with

arrived captioned Elmira Star-Gazette 1948; it is the same syndicated column of 2 September 1982

Cite this item

"What Is 'Palestine,' Anyway?," (newspaper unidentified), 2 September 1982. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1982-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1982-006

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