On Thu, Aug 11, 2005, Canaan Admin wrote about "Debian & Political standings":
> I was suprised that in the country list I found the following entry:
> Palestinian territories, Occupied

I am guessing that Debian did not invent this "country", but rather that
they used the ISO 3611-1 standard country list. You can find this
list in

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html

In which you can find a ... "PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED - PS".

> 2. Even if they choose to show the Palestinian territories why they 
> added the "Occupied"?

If you want to know why ISO (not Debian) chose this name, please look at
ISO's newsletter from October 1999:

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/03updates-on-iso-3166/nlv2-ps.html


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