Editing Occupied Palestinian territories (section)

==Name==
{{see also|History of Palestine|Timeline of the name Palestine}}

The [[United Nations]], the [[European Union]], [[International Committee of the Red Cross]], and the government of the [[United Kingdom]], have used for a number of years{{when|date=April 2022}} the terms the "Occupied Palestinian Territory" or "Occupied Palestinian Territories".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/report/palestine-report-131207.htm |title=The occupied Palestinian territories: Dignity Denied |publisher=International Committee of the Red Cross |date=13 December 2007 |access-date=26 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/world/the-occupied-palestinian-territories |title=UK and The Occupied Palestinian Territories |website=GOV.UK |access-date=29 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmintdev/230/230.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040209234649/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmintdev/230/230.pdf |archive-date=2004-02-09 |url-status=live |title=House of Commons International Development Committee – FINAL REPORT Vol I 26 January 2004 |access-date=30 June 2010}}</ref>

The phrase "occupied Palestine" has been used by Palestinians to mean Israel although Professor Julie Peteet also says that this usage diminished with the advent of the peace process and PLO recognition of Israel.<ref>Julie Peteet (2005) Words as interventions: naming in the Palestine–Israel conflict, Third World Quarterly, 26:1, 153–172,  {{doi|10.1080/0143659042000322964}}</ref> A parallel exists in the aspirations of David Ben-Gurion,<ref name="Britlabour and Zionism">{{cite book |title=The British labour movement and Zionism, 1917–1948 |year=1983 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-7146-3162-2 |page=138 |author1=Joseph Gorny |author2=Yosef Gorni |quote=The Jewish people have always regarded, and will continue to regard Palestine as a whole, as a single country which is theirs in a national sense and will become theirs once again. No Jew{{dubious|date=May 2013}} will accept partition as a just and rightful solution.}}</ref> Menachem Begin,<ref name="Avi Shlaim">{{cite book |last=Shlaim |first=Avi |title=The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World |year=2008 |publisher=Paw Prints |isbn=978-1-4352-9513-1 |page=670}}</ref> to establish Jewish sovereignty over all of [[Greater Israel]] in trust for the Jewish people.<ref>See, for example, [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3596946,00.html Open a Bible]</ref><ref>The [https://www.knesset.gov.il/elections/knesset15/elikud_m.htm Likud—Platform] states "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan River. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state."</ref>