history of palestine national football team we should show both viewpoints and matches claimed to be the first internationals played by palestine or israel in and if we want to be righteous and give a civilized image for wikipedia note that the british mandate used the term palestine predominately not israel i as a palestinian try and wants to be neutral as much as i can however when it comes to stealing my country's sport history i became very angry and i feel injustice according to many sources a part of them says that palestine came to existence in football for the first in and played vs egypt in the world cup qualification and the other part says that the palestinian football association was inherited by the israeli one in we can not be sure which part is right so that requires to follow both parties to not disappoint any people from palestine and israel as well as avoiding editing wars that have occurred in the past sources a history of palestine from the ottoman conquest to the founding of the state of israel by gudrun kr mer sports around the world history culture and practice by john nauright and charles parrish