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Questions related to the government or politics regarding the State of Palestine.

The State of Palestine is a de jure sovereign state in the . Palestine's is called the Palestinian National Council.

Palestine is a non-member observer state in the .

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Why is the Palestinian question always framed in terms of the "Palestinian state" rather than the "Palestinian people"?

To quote Matthew Yglesias: You can imagine a kind of guy who runs around advocating for the following ideas: Egypt should open the borders with Gaza and allow unarmed people who can pass some kind of background check to leave the “open air prison”…
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