Competing with Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Palestine question, Iraq 's head of state General Abd al-Karim Qasim proposes establishing a “Palestinian Republic” whose sovereignty would unfold first in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and then expand to include the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948.
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