A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 3)
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- عنوان
- A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 3)
- المحتوى
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Palestine A Land Of The Arabs
1. Palestine is that part of the Arab Homeland which
is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea from the West,
Lebanon from the North, Syria and the Jordan River
from the East, and the Red Sea and the Sinai Peninsula
from the South and the South-West. Its area equals 27,024
square kilometres. Often it was called « Southern Syria »,
since Palestine forms a natural continuation of Syria.
2. The strategic geographical position of Palestine
made it, throughout history, a meeting place for many
cultures and civilisations. The later phases of its history
gave it its Arabo-Islamic identity.
As far as recorded history goes the Cananites, who
came from the Arabian Peninsula, settled in Palestine.
They intermingled with the Amorites and the Palestinians,
and as of 2500 B.C. they ruled Palestine for 15 centuries.
In the period lying between the 10th Century B.C.
and the Arab Conquest of the 7th Century A.D., Palestine
witnessed a succession of invasions by a number of king-
doms and peoples such as the Hebrews, the Greeks, and
the Romans. In addition there were always waves of im- - هو جزء من
- A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem
- تاريخ
- نوفمبر ١٩٦٦
- المنشئ
- Darwazah, al-Ḥakam
- دروزة، الحكم
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