Original sentence: The inhabitants of these territories are predominantly Palestinian Arabs, along with a minority of Jewish settlers.The term "Palestinian territories" is a name for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - two territories currently controlled by the state of Israel.The territories are referred to as the occupied Palestinian territories, or, simply, Occupied Palestine, by groups who dispute the legitimacy of Israeli control
Edited sentence: , Israel, is thus obliged (as a matter of right as well as by international law) to return these territories to their rightful owners; and., the stateless indigenous Arabs of Palestine.Because nearly all of these nationalists and their sympathizers, as well as the bulk of the United Nations Organization, consider these territories to be under occupation by Israel, they frequently refer to them as the occupied Palestinian territories, or, simply, Occupied Palestine, which has been a term for the area since the earliest days of Partition.Some dislike the term Palestinians for them, because they think it connotes the view that Israeli Jews, Druze, Bedouin, non Arab Christians and Muslims, and other residents of the region of Palestine aren't "real Palestinians".Some nationalists seek to found a new nation-state in these non-sovereign areas.The term "Palestinian territories" is used by mainstream Western journalists as a collective name for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - two disputed territories in Palestine.They are chiefly Arabs indigenous to the region, and are either called Palestinian Arabs or, more commonly, Palestinians.This term connotes much more than a definition, but a host of related propositions that amount to a preventive political argument about the disposition and status of the land:.This usage is not common in modern-times.Used in a more general sense, the term "Palestinian territories" simply refers to areas within the geographic region known from ancient times as "Palestine" (see definitions of Palestine).that the nation in control of these territories, i.that these territories are under the military control of a nation that does not have sovereignty over them;.that these territories belong by right to the Palestinians, i