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Ramallah and Al Bireh has more twin cities than sighted here, I know for a fact that the french city of Bordeaux is a sister city of Ramallah. See Ramallah's official webpage http://www.ramallah.ps/english.aspx and this brochure about the subject from the same site http://www.ramallah.ps/pics/partners.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.205.48.12 ( talk) 11:16, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
That's true, you should also add San fer Treus72 ( talk) 12:16, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Instead of repeating the phrase "great hardship on the Palestinian population" about 4 times, it would be more helpful if someone wrote at least a sentance to give some idea what effect the curfew had on Palestinian life.
I made a change that should be non-controversial, but just in case, felt like I should point it out. There is no such thing as an "Jewish-only" road in Israel, neither legally or in practice. Israeli-only roads, as in for cars traveling with Israeli license plates, are used by Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. - Californian, 10/1/2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.197.224 ( talk) 05:38, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
Should this be here since there are no formal ties between Birmingham and Ramallah.
How about adding a section for references to Ramallah in literature/culture? I'd add "I Saw Ramallah" by Mourid Barghouti (an excellent book). I'd like to find out about other books/references, etc.
just by curiosity, what does the name Ramallah mean? i assume its Ram(meaning??) + Allah("God"), so what does Ram mean? - -- Cyprus2k1 14:28, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Ram is a Hindu God too...it may symbolize meeting of two civilisations also. No. When have Hindus ever met with Palestinian monotheists? When has a Hindu civilization even existed in the middle-east? None have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.131.9 ( talk) 00:14, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
However there are proofs that during the time of Chandragupta Maurya (285 BC), Hindu empire spread throughout the middle east thus proving the presence of Hinduism in middle east. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.160.104.254 ( talk) 08:28, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Ram is defined as a "hill" - so Ram Allah would mean Hill of God
In the Scriptures it can be found that the Empire of the Lord RAM (Bharat Varsha) span to the Entire world . This was the Time when No Religion was practicised more than 7000 Yrs. Which is much before existense of any known modern religion . SO definately it has a connection of Lord RAM and later the word Allah came with religion of Islam. Similarly is the hindu Kush Valley in Afganistan Which was a territory of KUSH the elder Son of Lord RAM . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.41.84.80 ( talk) 12:34, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Surely the name Ram is the name of the Hindu God - - making Ramallah a name for a place which was sacred to both the Hindu and Muslim. No. Why on earth would a land of monotheistic Semites with a bunch of ancient exclusively Semitic Gods have anything to do with Hinduism? Ram is a Semitic root word that's translatable to hill, or establishment. Like the word "Tel" present in front of the names of many Palestinian villages corresponds to "Spring." It has nothing to do with one of the many Hindu Gods. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.131.9 ( talk) 00:13, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Ram is Hebrew and means high place, or plateau as in Ramat Hagolan Golan Heights.
You have to know that Hindu civilization goes at least 32 000 BC while Islam came into existence in 700 AD. Indian science and culture was very popular in the past before Greece. For example it had the first cities of the world in Harappa, Mohanjodor's and Dwarka. All these go back from 6000 BC to 32 000 BC. Ity is quite possible that when people there converted they still kept the Lord Rama's name. Like Ram-daan which means donation in the name of lord Rama or Ram Allah (Ram which is Allah). People forget but names stay. I find in US people named Ram Ji but spelled differently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.91.120.54 ( talk) 00:29, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
I've been working on rewriting this article for a few weeks now (in my free time). The article that was there before was horribly lacking and focused on a very narrow aspect of what Ramallah is, not to mention many factually incorrect assertions. I hope people like this better, and agree that it's as neutral as possible. Ramallite (talk) 3 July 2005 07:46 (UTC)
I'll have to work on your edits a little later on, but before I do, maybe you might want to consider these:
How about calling Ramallah an Arab-only colony since Jews are not allowed to live there? Ramallite (talk) 3 July 2005 16:41 (UTC)
Ramallite (talk) 3 July 2005 09:10 (UTC)
Ramallite, your re-write obviously took a lot of effort, and made a significant improvement to the article. However, I think if you look at the article with a more dispassionate eye, you will realize that even now it contains a great deal of information, particularly in the latter sections, that is generically about the conflict, and not specifically related to the city itself. It would be like, for example, having a long section about the reasons, causes, and effects of the Civil War in the United States inserted into the individual articles describing every city and town in the United States that existed at that time. Yes, they were all affected by the war in one way or another; but only information relevant to the individual cities and towns (e.g. if the town was burnt down by invading troops) belong in the specific articles. Jayjg (talk) 3 July 2005 19:24 (UTC)
The lengthy descriptions of the CA are general and probably belong in more general article, as is the information about the Madrid Peace Conference, and still some of the general description of the Al-Aqsa intifada. Jayjg (talk) 4 July 2005 17:07 (UTC)
Ones like this probably get few readers. General ones, like Israel or Palestine or Six-Day War, get many, many readers. Jayjg (talk) 4 July 2005 17:07 (UTC)
Ramallite, I have to say the quality of some of the links provided is pretty poor. Anonymous opinion pieces really don't belong on Wikipedia, and some of the other sources provided, while not anonymous, might as well be, since they quote unknown or anonymous people, or people making vague and unsourced claims, and in any event come from clearly highly biased sources. Jayjg (talk) 5 July 2005 15:26 (UTC)
My response would be as follows:
As always, I welcome any specific comments and suggestions of specific problems, but chances are that I will be able to point out much worse examples elsewhere. Ramallite (talk) 5 July 2005 15:49 (UTC)
The first non-encyclopedic link was there only to source the founding year of the CA, and I've replaced it. The "highly POV" link, while clearly anti-occupation (who wants their land confiscated?), is one of the few English language pages that offers a lengthy description of land confiscation based on Palestinian and Israeli sources (which are all referenced in that article - Al-Fajr (Palestinian daily), Ma'ariv (Israeli daily), etc), and also includes personal interviews. These land confiscations did happen, nobody disputes that. I've re-directed that link to page 3 of the article instead of page 1, which has some Ramallah specific stories but with much less rhetoric than the intro on page 1. As for Palestine Monitor and others, I don't agree that they are anti Zionist per se. They are strongly anti occupation though, which I guess can be construed as anti Zionist but not necessarily. Palestine Monitor, for example, is run by the office of Mustafa Barghouti, a candidate in the recent Palestinian elections (came in second with 19% of the vote - but 50% of the Ramallah vote :) ), and that office is an NGO; Dr. Barghouti frequently hosts Israelis there. The Monitor contains articles by anti-occupation Israeli Jews (and I've added another link by Amira Haas). One must remember that a lot of Zionists are anti-occupation. Yossi Beilin and probably all Israeli Jews who worked on the Geneva Accords (including Amram Mitzna and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, both former IDF chiefs of staff) are ardent Zionists, but their definition of reality regarding Zionism is quite different from Sharon's. I sometimes wish that Zionists would realize that one can either side with Israel, or with occupation, but not both. Ramallite (talk) 6 July 2005 18:00 (UTC)
the article states that there were 8 main families in ramallah that modern day people can trace thier ancestry to, was wondering if anyone could point out these 8 family names. just checking moms side, since i know my dad's family migrated from Yafa after one of the wars. 7areega 20:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
The intifada sections, particularly the second one, are extremely POV against Israel and do not mention the reasonings for curfews and other IDF actions. The sections should either remove anti-Israel statements or add the other side of the issue. -- יהושועEric 00:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
This article has quite a few obstacles in the way of a GA nomination. They are the following:
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All sorts of problems, particularly no mention of refugees and patchy references to occupation. 94.116.0.198 ( talk) 15:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
So why the other are not called "occupation" too? Like Jordanian occupation so so on? It is funny so read "trusted by other Arabs" when Jordan was also a product of imperialism as other countries in the region which borders were drawn without taking into account local populations. And it si ridiculous now that some people are very pround to be Egyption, or Iraq which are product of European colonialism. Even if it was trusted by other Arabs to take care of the Arabs in in British Mandate they were enforcing their agenda and never supported a Palestinian State, instead thei annexed man parts of the country. Targumferera ( talk) 10:50, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
I am surprised that some is naming the Israeli military occupation of the west bank as a management?!?!?
west bank is NOT a company to be managed! it's a pure military occupation, and even israel itself calls it occupation!-- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 08:14, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
your answer is NOT relevant to my question, and does NOT even make sense!
admins should help and guide others, not to be rude and mean! -- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 18:26, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
any logical and objective answer?-- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 17:42, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thats how admins should act! they should help and explain, not just revert and threaten! thanks!
at any rate, i do not agree with the title as i feel that its misleading, as the ramallah is not a company to be managed! its a city that is being occupied and controlled by a foreign country by force and military; so calling it management is misleading, biased and does not represent the truth.
then we have to make something clear, as jordan was not occupying ramallah, because jordan was trusted by the palestinians and the arab world to take care of the west bank because the palestinians did not have their own government or army, as palestine was under the british occupation, and then the british withdrew and handed it over to the zionists, and the palestinians were not able to defend themselves, thats why jordan was in control; so calling it jordan "management" is fine with me, even though i believe that any foreign country that controls other country is called occupation
but, israel was not managing west bank at all, israel military occupied the west bank, imprison its residents, killed them, ethnic cleansed them, forced them to pay taxes, implied its own curriculum on the occupied schools.... its pure occupation by a foreign country. so i believe that u should find another word instead of "management" as it does not fit. thanks!
looking forward for ur feedback-- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 09:50, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
my answer is more logical than yours, and more close to the truth than urs as well.
was ur answer backed by any sources?-- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 15:28, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
I see that User:Al Ameer son already in 2008 asked for more sources...after all these years it is still a major problem. I can find no sources for:
..Finkelstein has none. I suggest we just remove those sections. Another big problem is the "modern foundation" myth, typical for Christian villages, that they escaped there to avoid a marriage of a daughter to a Muslim. This is a common myth (see e.g. Rafidia)...and wrong, as modern research (see e.g. Ellenblum) shows a continuos Christian presence from the Byzantine era until today, in those places which are still Christian today. See also the 1597 daftar-numbers. I simply think we need to cut them out, or down in size, or make very sure that they appear as what they are: myths. Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 16:23, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Also, is it possible to get hold of this:
...it would be great. Huldra ( talk) 19:48, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Can either the history section be expanded to include literally anything about this location during the Roman era, or the Roman ruins picture be removed from the introductory area? The history and culture sections don't address Roman times and to me it beg questions about the picture.-Mike K — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.201.95.250 ( talk) 17:33, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
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Yasser Arafat established his West Bank headquarters, the Mukataa, in Ramallah. Although considered an interim solution, Ramallah became the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority, now officially known as the State of Palestine.
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Yasser Arafat established his West Bank headquarters, the Mukataa, in Ramallah. Although considered an interim solution, Ramallah became the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority.
Note: There is no State of Palestine. Wallstreetobserver ( talk) 03:50, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps because of the recent (and excellent) documentary about his second term as Mayor of Ramallah, Musa Hadid now has a wikipedia page! It only makes sense that his page might be linked in the infobox by someone with the proper clearance. Eggsandmarxism ( talk) 05:53, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
A good book to add to the bibliography would be Maya Abu Al-Hayat, editor, The Book of Ramallah (Comma Press 2021). Nutmeg39 ( talk) 00:03, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Jerusalem is the capital of palestine, Ramallah is just a city 2603:6011:7903:41F9:CC17:D256:DDB5:E113 ( talk) 15:01, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
And? Selfstudier ( talk) 15:58, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
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Please add the flag of Ramallah: thanks! Strenatos ( talk) 23:50, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Since my previous request was not answered, please add the flag of Ramallah: It can be seen here, and here. Strenatos ( talk) 23:50, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Wellington, New Zealand voted this year to add Ramallah as a sister city - would someone with the appropriate access be able to add Wellington to the sister city section?
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At the first mention of PNA, please add 'Palestinian National Authority' in parentheses. GraueEule ( talk) 07:50, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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In the Culture section of this page, the first paragraph references several restaurants/cafes including the "Stars and Bucks Cafe," which links to the page for the American corporation, Starbucks. This is an incorrect link and actually references a separate Palestinian cafe chain that capitalizes on the brand awareness of Starbucks. The link should be removed or changed to link an article discussing the viral knock-off status of Stars and Bucks.
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Ramallah and Al Bireh has more twin cities than sighted here, I know for a fact that the french city of Bordeaux is a sister city of Ramallah. See Ramallah's official webpage http://www.ramallah.ps/english.aspx and this brochure about the subject from the same site http://www.ramallah.ps/pics/partners.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.205.48.12 ( talk) 11:16, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
That's true, you should also add San fer Treus72 ( talk) 12:16, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Instead of repeating the phrase "great hardship on the Palestinian population" about 4 times, it would be more helpful if someone wrote at least a sentance to give some idea what effect the curfew had on Palestinian life.
I made a change that should be non-controversial, but just in case, felt like I should point it out. There is no such thing as an "Jewish-only" road in Israel, neither legally or in practice. Israeli-only roads, as in for cars traveling with Israeli license plates, are used by Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. - Californian, 10/1/2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.197.224 ( talk) 05:38, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
Should this be here since there are no formal ties between Birmingham and Ramallah.
How about adding a section for references to Ramallah in literature/culture? I'd add "I Saw Ramallah" by Mourid Barghouti (an excellent book). I'd like to find out about other books/references, etc.
just by curiosity, what does the name Ramallah mean? i assume its Ram(meaning??) + Allah("God"), so what does Ram mean? - -- Cyprus2k1 14:28, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Ram is a Hindu God too...it may symbolize meeting of two civilisations also. No. When have Hindus ever met with Palestinian monotheists? When has a Hindu civilization even existed in the middle-east? None have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.131.9 ( talk) 00:14, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
However there are proofs that during the time of Chandragupta Maurya (285 BC), Hindu empire spread throughout the middle east thus proving the presence of Hinduism in middle east. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.160.104.254 ( talk) 08:28, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Ram is defined as a "hill" - so Ram Allah would mean Hill of God
In the Scriptures it can be found that the Empire of the Lord RAM (Bharat Varsha) span to the Entire world . This was the Time when No Religion was practicised more than 7000 Yrs. Which is much before existense of any known modern religion . SO definately it has a connection of Lord RAM and later the word Allah came with religion of Islam. Similarly is the hindu Kush Valley in Afganistan Which was a territory of KUSH the elder Son of Lord RAM . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.41.84.80 ( talk) 12:34, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Surely the name Ram is the name of the Hindu God - - making Ramallah a name for a place which was sacred to both the Hindu and Muslim. No. Why on earth would a land of monotheistic Semites with a bunch of ancient exclusively Semitic Gods have anything to do with Hinduism? Ram is a Semitic root word that's translatable to hill, or establishment. Like the word "Tel" present in front of the names of many Palestinian villages corresponds to "Spring." It has nothing to do with one of the many Hindu Gods. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.131.9 ( talk) 00:13, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Ram is Hebrew and means high place, or plateau as in Ramat Hagolan Golan Heights.
You have to know that Hindu civilization goes at least 32 000 BC while Islam came into existence in 700 AD. Indian science and culture was very popular in the past before Greece. For example it had the first cities of the world in Harappa, Mohanjodor's and Dwarka. All these go back from 6000 BC to 32 000 BC. Ity is quite possible that when people there converted they still kept the Lord Rama's name. Like Ram-daan which means donation in the name of lord Rama or Ram Allah (Ram which is Allah). People forget but names stay. I find in US people named Ram Ji but spelled differently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.91.120.54 ( talk) 00:29, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
I've been working on rewriting this article for a few weeks now (in my free time). The article that was there before was horribly lacking and focused on a very narrow aspect of what Ramallah is, not to mention many factually incorrect assertions. I hope people like this better, and agree that it's as neutral as possible. Ramallite (talk) 3 July 2005 07:46 (UTC)
I'll have to work on your edits a little later on, but before I do, maybe you might want to consider these:
How about calling Ramallah an Arab-only colony since Jews are not allowed to live there? Ramallite (talk) 3 July 2005 16:41 (UTC)
Ramallite (talk) 3 July 2005 09:10 (UTC)
Ramallite, your re-write obviously took a lot of effort, and made a significant improvement to the article. However, I think if you look at the article with a more dispassionate eye, you will realize that even now it contains a great deal of information, particularly in the latter sections, that is generically about the conflict, and not specifically related to the city itself. It would be like, for example, having a long section about the reasons, causes, and effects of the Civil War in the United States inserted into the individual articles describing every city and town in the United States that existed at that time. Yes, they were all affected by the war in one way or another; but only information relevant to the individual cities and towns (e.g. if the town was burnt down by invading troops) belong in the specific articles. Jayjg (talk) 3 July 2005 19:24 (UTC)
The lengthy descriptions of the CA are general and probably belong in more general article, as is the information about the Madrid Peace Conference, and still some of the general description of the Al-Aqsa intifada. Jayjg (talk) 4 July 2005 17:07 (UTC)
Ones like this probably get few readers. General ones, like Israel or Palestine or Six-Day War, get many, many readers. Jayjg (talk) 4 July 2005 17:07 (UTC)
Ramallite, I have to say the quality of some of the links provided is pretty poor. Anonymous opinion pieces really don't belong on Wikipedia, and some of the other sources provided, while not anonymous, might as well be, since they quote unknown or anonymous people, or people making vague and unsourced claims, and in any event come from clearly highly biased sources. Jayjg (talk) 5 July 2005 15:26 (UTC)
My response would be as follows:
As always, I welcome any specific comments and suggestions of specific problems, but chances are that I will be able to point out much worse examples elsewhere. Ramallite (talk) 5 July 2005 15:49 (UTC)
The first non-encyclopedic link was there only to source the founding year of the CA, and I've replaced it. The "highly POV" link, while clearly anti-occupation (who wants their land confiscated?), is one of the few English language pages that offers a lengthy description of land confiscation based on Palestinian and Israeli sources (which are all referenced in that article - Al-Fajr (Palestinian daily), Ma'ariv (Israeli daily), etc), and also includes personal interviews. These land confiscations did happen, nobody disputes that. I've re-directed that link to page 3 of the article instead of page 1, which has some Ramallah specific stories but with much less rhetoric than the intro on page 1. As for Palestine Monitor and others, I don't agree that they are anti Zionist per se. They are strongly anti occupation though, which I guess can be construed as anti Zionist but not necessarily. Palestine Monitor, for example, is run by the office of Mustafa Barghouti, a candidate in the recent Palestinian elections (came in second with 19% of the vote - but 50% of the Ramallah vote :) ), and that office is an NGO; Dr. Barghouti frequently hosts Israelis there. The Monitor contains articles by anti-occupation Israeli Jews (and I've added another link by Amira Haas). One must remember that a lot of Zionists are anti-occupation. Yossi Beilin and probably all Israeli Jews who worked on the Geneva Accords (including Amram Mitzna and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, both former IDF chiefs of staff) are ardent Zionists, but their definition of reality regarding Zionism is quite different from Sharon's. I sometimes wish that Zionists would realize that one can either side with Israel, or with occupation, but not both. Ramallite (talk) 6 July 2005 18:00 (UTC)
the article states that there were 8 main families in ramallah that modern day people can trace thier ancestry to, was wondering if anyone could point out these 8 family names. just checking moms side, since i know my dad's family migrated from Yafa after one of the wars. 7areega 20:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
The intifada sections, particularly the second one, are extremely POV against Israel and do not mention the reasonings for curfews and other IDF actions. The sections should either remove anti-Israel statements or add the other side of the issue. -- יהושועEric 00:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
This article has quite a few obstacles in the way of a GA nomination. They are the following:
-- Al Ameer son ( talk) 03:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
All sorts of problems, particularly no mention of refugees and patchy references to occupation. 94.116.0.198 ( talk) 15:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
So why the other are not called "occupation" too? Like Jordanian occupation so so on? It is funny so read "trusted by other Arabs" when Jordan was also a product of imperialism as other countries in the region which borders were drawn without taking into account local populations. And it si ridiculous now that some people are very pround to be Egyption, or Iraq which are product of European colonialism. Even if it was trusted by other Arabs to take care of the Arabs in in British Mandate they were enforcing their agenda and never supported a Palestinian State, instead thei annexed man parts of the country. Targumferera ( talk) 10:50, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
I am surprised that some is naming the Israeli military occupation of the west bank as a management?!?!?
west bank is NOT a company to be managed! it's a pure military occupation, and even israel itself calls it occupation!-- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 08:14, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
your answer is NOT relevant to my question, and does NOT even make sense!
admins should help and guide others, not to be rude and mean! -- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 18:26, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
any logical and objective answer?-- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 17:42, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thats how admins should act! they should help and explain, not just revert and threaten! thanks!
at any rate, i do not agree with the title as i feel that its misleading, as the ramallah is not a company to be managed! its a city that is being occupied and controlled by a foreign country by force and military; so calling it management is misleading, biased and does not represent the truth.
then we have to make something clear, as jordan was not occupying ramallah, because jordan was trusted by the palestinians and the arab world to take care of the west bank because the palestinians did not have their own government or army, as palestine was under the british occupation, and then the british withdrew and handed it over to the zionists, and the palestinians were not able to defend themselves, thats why jordan was in control; so calling it jordan "management" is fine with me, even though i believe that any foreign country that controls other country is called occupation
but, israel was not managing west bank at all, israel military occupied the west bank, imprison its residents, killed them, ethnic cleansed them, forced them to pay taxes, implied its own curriculum on the occupied schools.... its pure occupation by a foreign country. so i believe that u should find another word instead of "management" as it does not fit. thanks!
looking forward for ur feedback-- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 09:50, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
my answer is more logical than yours, and more close to the truth than urs as well.
was ur answer backed by any sources?-- 213.6.0.225 ( talk) 15:28, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
I see that User:Al Ameer son already in 2008 asked for more sources...after all these years it is still a major problem. I can find no sources for:
..Finkelstein has none. I suggest we just remove those sections. Another big problem is the "modern foundation" myth, typical for Christian villages, that they escaped there to avoid a marriage of a daughter to a Muslim. This is a common myth (see e.g. Rafidia)...and wrong, as modern research (see e.g. Ellenblum) shows a continuos Christian presence from the Byzantine era until today, in those places which are still Christian today. See also the 1597 daftar-numbers. I simply think we need to cut them out, or down in size, or make very sure that they appear as what they are: myths. Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 16:23, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Also, is it possible to get hold of this:
...it would be great. Huldra ( talk) 19:48, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Can either the history section be expanded to include literally anything about this location during the Roman era, or the Roman ruins picture be removed from the introductory area? The history and culture sections don't address Roman times and to me it beg questions about the picture.-Mike K — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.201.95.250 ( talk) 17:33, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
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Yasser Arafat established his West Bank headquarters, the Mukataa, in Ramallah. Although considered an interim solution, Ramallah became the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority, now officially known as the State of Palestine.
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Yasser Arafat established his West Bank headquarters, the Mukataa, in Ramallah. Although considered an interim solution, Ramallah became the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority.
Note: There is no State of Palestine. Wallstreetobserver ( talk) 03:50, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps because of the recent (and excellent) documentary about his second term as Mayor of Ramallah, Musa Hadid now has a wikipedia page! It only makes sense that his page might be linked in the infobox by someone with the proper clearance. Eggsandmarxism ( talk) 05:53, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
A good book to add to the bibliography would be Maya Abu Al-Hayat, editor, The Book of Ramallah (Comma Press 2021). Nutmeg39 ( talk) 00:03, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Jerusalem is the capital of palestine, Ramallah is just a city 2603:6011:7903:41F9:CC17:D256:DDB5:E113 ( talk) 15:01, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
And? Selfstudier ( talk) 15:58, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
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Please add the flag of Ramallah: thanks! Strenatos ( talk) 23:50, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Since my previous request was not answered, please add the flag of Ramallah: It can be seen here, and here. Strenatos ( talk) 23:50, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Wellington, New Zealand voted this year to add Ramallah as a sister city - would someone with the appropriate access be able to add Wellington to the sister city section?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/wellington/132436582/wellington-city-council-votes-for-a-sister-city-in-palestine AtticEdit ( talk) 20:51, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
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At the first mention of PNA, please add 'Palestinian National Authority' in parentheses. GraueEule ( talk) 07:50, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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In the Culture section of this page, the first paragraph references several restaurants/cafes including the "Stars and Bucks Cafe," which links to the page for the American corporation, Starbucks. This is an incorrect link and actually references a separate Palestinian cafe chain that capitalizes on the brand awareness of Starbucks. The link should be removed or changed to link an article discussing the viral knock-off status of Stars and Bucks.
https://dontstopliving.net/thirsty-thursdays-stars-and-bucks-coffee-bethlehem-palestine/ https://www.facebook.com/starsandbuckscafe 2601:445:600:2DA0:442A:13D0:EC5B:7EBC ( talk) 15:25, 23 January 2024 (UTC)