from the river to the sea

短语

英文释义

短语
  1. A slogan expressing support for Palestinian self-determination.
    — The way out [of this cycle of violence] remains the same: a change of regime in Israel that brings equal rights for everyone from the river to the sea[.]

词源

A calque of Arabic مِنَ ٱلنَّهْرِ إِلَى ٱلْبَحْرِ (mina n-nahri ʔilā l-baḥri, “from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea”), popularized among Palestinians by the Palestine Liberation Organization, from Hebrew בין הים לירדן (“between the [Mediterranean] sea and the Jordan [river]”); as seen in the platform of the right-wing Zionist Likud party in 1977; both referring to the geography of Palestine.
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