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After weeks of Israeli closure, Gaza Strip is completely out of bread
Dear Friends,
The Israeli government convinced many people that it "gave Gaza back to the Palestinians" a few months ago, but as the report below demonstrates, Israel still controls the people in Gaza, and now it is making them go without bread—literally. Gaza is not free; it is a huge prison controlled by Israel.
As long as there is a Jewish state in Palestine, Zionist leaders will subject non-Jews to racist policies like this. These policies are necessary because a Jewish state—in order to "secure" a Jewish majority population—needs to drive non-Jews out of the Jewish state part of Palestine and forcibly prevent them from returning to their country, all of which requires brutal measures to control Palestinians. The atrocities that Israel now commits in its occupation of the West Bank and control of Gazan borders are, as Israel says, security measures; the point is that they are designed to make secure that which should be abolished—a racist state (Israel itself, not just its occupation of the territories) based on oppression of and discrimination against non-Jews in ways that top South African trade unionist Willy Madisha, president of COSATU, said made South Africa's apartheid policies a "sunday picnic" in comparison.
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Tutu: Gaza blockade abomination
Archbishop Tutu describes his feelings after visiting Gaza
Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has called Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip an "abomination".
He strongly condemned what he called international "silence and complicity" on the blockade, which he compared to the actions of Burma's leaders.
Speaking at the end of a two day mission to the area, the former archbishop said the humanitarian situation there could not be justified.
Earlier, 60 Palestinians were detained in an Israeli raid on northern Gaza.
Residents in the Beit Hanoun area were summoned to a local square by Israeli troops with loudhailers before dozens were taken away, witnesses said.
'International complicity'
Mr Tutu was in Gaza on a United Nations fact-finding mission into the killing of 19 Palestinians by Israeli shellfire in November 2006.
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity, especially on the situation in Gaza, shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
Desmond Tutu
The former archbishop of Cape Town said the international community's "silence and complicity, especially on the situation in Gaza, shames us all".
Mr Tutu said conflicts were resolved through talking to enemies not friends.
He said his meeting with the deposed prime minister, Ismail Haniya, was an opportunity to tell the Hamas leader the firing of rockets into Israel was also a violation of human rights.
During his two-day visit, Mr Tutu met relatives of 19 civilians killed in the Israeli shelling of two houses in Beit Hanoun and is due to report his findings to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He condemned the incident as a "massacre".
Israel says the Beit Hanoun deaths in November 2006 were a mistake during action to target areas used by Palestinian militants.
The Israeli military confirmed its pre-dawn incursion into Gaza on Thursday and said about 60 "wanted Palestinians" were being interrogated.
Armoured military bulldozers destroyed farmland during the incursion, witnesses told AFP news agency.
Israeli forces launch frequent attacks into Gaza which they say are aimed at combating Palestinian militants who fire rockets into Israel.
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Palestinians mark the 'Nakba'
Bush is the first US president to address
the Israeli Knesset [AFP]
Palestinians have held protests across the occupied territories to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe", when they were uprooted from their homes by the establishment of Israel.
In the West Bank on Thursday, rallies and sirens commemorated the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 war.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, speaking from Ramallah, called for an end to occupation and settlement building.
"It's time for the occupation to leave our land ... and for the 'catastrophe' to come to an end," Abbas said in a televised speech.
"Our Palestinian people have carried in pain the memory, and hope to return to their homeland."
Black balloons were released by Palestinians in the West Bank and by Palestinian refugees in other areas of the world to mark the day. In the West Bank 21,195 balloons were released - one for every day of the Nakba.
Checkpoint clash
Nour Odeh, Al Jazeera's correspondent in the West Bank, reported that there were clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers manning the Qalandiya checkpoint on Thursday.
"[The soldiers] responded to stones being thrown in their direction by firing rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas," she reported.
The youths had marched from Ramallah to the checkpoint to commemorate the 60 years of dispossession.
"It was tense, but now the clashes have ended. [The checkpoint] is a permanent friction point between Palestinians and the Israeli occupation.
"It represents the ongoing occupation or expropriation of Palestinian land through the separation wall, which blocks their hope of having a contiguous and viable state any time in the future."
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Al-Manar (المنار; Arabic for The Beacon) is a satellite television station broadcasting from Beirut, Lebanon.[1] The station was launched by Hezbollah in 1991[2] with the help of Iranian funds.[3] Al-Manar, self-proclaimed "Station of the Resistance" (qanat al-muqawama), is a key player in what Hezbollah calls its "psychological warfare against the Zionist enemy"[4][3] and an integral part of Hezbollah's plan to spread its message to the entire Arab world.[3] Al Manar does not aim to be neutral, but instead tries to broadcast in support of a partisan approach to today's news.[5] Currently, programming is geared towards coverage of the Palestinian cause, and the U.S. coalition's occupation of Iraq.[3]
Al-Manar was designated a 'terrorist entity', and banned by the United States in December 2004.[6] It has also been banned by France and Spain,[7][8] and has run into some service and license problems abroad[9] , making it unavailable in the Netherlands[10][11], south America,[8] Canada[12] and Australia[13][14] while it has not officially been banned in any of these regions.
In 2004, Al Manar was estimated to hold 10-15 million viewers daily worldwide
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The UN Resolution of 1947 allocated 45% of British Mandate Palestine to a Palestinian State. In 1948, Israel occupied 78% of the land, leaving just 22% -- the West Bank and Gaza -- to the Palestinians. This is all they have been demanding since 1993. Now, Israel is robbing more than the better half of these 22% left. Six million Israelis are to have about 90% of the land (and water), whereas three-and-a-half million Palestinians, many of them refugees, are pushed to starve into what is left, locked behind gigantic walls in open-air prisons, with no land, no water and no hope. The moral way to peace, love and security, no doubt.
The Apartheid Wall will be 8m high and probably 1.000km long. For comparison, China's Great Wall -- the only human-made object seen from outer space -- is 6.700km long, whereas the Berlin Wall was a dwarf, just 155km long and 3,6m high. Keeping silent on this gigantic project and its genocidal implications, meant to prevent any fair future settlement (not to mention the Road Map), is a moral crime, of which almost the entire Western media is guilty.
-- Ran HaCohen
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Narrator: Ian McKellen
The Palestinian identity goes back, not to antiquity, but precisely to 1920. No "Palestinian Arab people" existed at the start of 1920 but by December it took shape in a form recognizably similar to today's.
This distaste was confirmed in April 1920, when the British occupying force carved out a "Palestine." Moslems reacted very suspiciously, rightly seeing this designation as a victory for Zionism. Less accurately, they worried about it signaling a revival in the Crusader impulse. No prominent Moslem voices endorsed the delineation of Palestine in 1920; all protested it. Instead, Moslems west of the Jordan directed their allegiance to Damascus, where the great-great-uncle of Jordan's King Abdullah II was then ruling; they identified themselves as Southern Syrians. Interestingly, no one advocated this affiliation more emphatically than a young man named Amin el-Husseini. In July 1920, however, the French overthrew this Hashemite king, in the process killing the notion of a Southern Syria. Isolated by the events of April and July, the Moslems of Palestine made the best of a bad situation. One prominent Jerusalemite commented, just days following the fall of the Hashemite kingdom: "after the recent events in Damascus, we have to effect a complete change in our plans here. Southern Syria no longer exists. We must defend Palestine."
Following this advice, the leadership in December 1920 adopted the goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state. Within a few years, this effort was led by el- Husseini.
The Sultan of Turkey conquered Palestine for his Ottoman Empire in 1517. For the next four hundred years, the Turks ruled Palestine as part of an administrative area called Greater Syria - which was to become the countries of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon in the twentieth century. Although Palestine was not a precisely defined geographic area until that time, the people of Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Gaza and Nablus and the peasants in the surrounding countryside used the term Filastin or Palestine to describe their land.
On July 2, 1919, the General Syrian Congress, meeting in Damascus, unanimously condemned the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, and the plans of the Zionists. They put a pointed question to the Great Powers: The Congress denounced the mandate system. It demanded that Greater Syria become one united and independent nation. As the resolutions became known, people demonstrated throughout Syria, Palestine and Lebanon in support of the Congress.
In the meantime, the King-Crane Commission had arrived in Jaffa. It consisted of only the two American representatives; France, Britain and Italy had backed out. The Commission spent six weeks in Syria and Palestine, interviewing delegations and reading petitions. King and Crane recommended an American mandate with two important provisions. First: The unity of Syria (Palestine, Syria and Lebanon) ought to be preserved in accordance with the earnest petition of the great majority of the people of Syria. A 1920 editorial in a Palestinian newspaper predicted the bloody era of the British mandate. It said: Palestine is Arab - its Muslims are Arab - its Christians are Arab - and its Jewish citizens are Arab too. Palestine will never by quiet if it is separated from Syria and made a national home for Zionism.
Arabs call 1920 Am Al Nakba, the Year of Catastrophe. Greater Syria was artificially divided into Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, and placed under French or British occupation. The occupying troops met strong resistance. French troops mowed down Syrians defending Damascus and imposed a harsh military dictatorship on Syria. In Iraq, armed rebellion challenged the British mandate.
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Wafa Sultan is a secular psychologist of Syrian-American origin. Although she is quite well-known for her part in the the public discussion on the clash of civilizations her recent appearance on Al Jazeera has spread on the Internet like wildfire. discuss, comment and let's know what you think about it. [More] [Less]
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Marcel Khalifé est né en 1950 à Amchit au Mont-Liban.
Ses études au conservatoire national de Beyrouth le consacrent spécialiste du luth oriental. Il contribue depuis à rénover l'utilisation de cet instrument.
De 1970 à 1975 Marcel Khalifé enseigne dans ce même conservatoire et dans d'autres institutions locales. En même temps, il donne des concerts de ´Oud´ en soliste au Proche-Orient, en Afrique du Nord, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord.
Emprisonné dans des techniques très strictes, c'est grâce à des musiciens de sa qualité que les possibilités du ´Oud´ se sont de plus en plus développées.
En 1972 il crée dans son village natal un groupe qui a pour but de faire revivre l'héritage musical et la chorale arabe. Les premières tournées ont lieu au Liban. L'ensemble ´Al Mayadine´ voit le jour en 1976. Enrichi de l'expérience du groupe local précédent, sa notoriété dépassera les frontières du Liban. Marcel Khalifé, accompagné de son ensemble musical, commence à effectuer de nombreuses tournées dans les pays arabes, en Afrique, en Europe, aux Etats-Unis, au Canada, en Amérique du Sud, en Australie, au Japon et ce jusqu'à nos jours.
Il fut plusieurs fois l'invité de festivals de renommée internationale tels que: Baalbeck, Beit Eddine (Liban), Carthage, El Hammamat (Tunisie), Timgad (Algérie), Jarash (Jordanie), Opéra du Caire (Egypte) Arles (France), Krems, Linz (Autriche), Bremen (Allemagne), ReOrient (Suède), Pavia (Italie), World Music Festival à San Francisco, New York, Clevland (USA). Il se produit dans des salles prestigieuses dont ´la Place des Arts´ à Montréal, ´Symphony Space´, ´Merkin Concert´, ´Berkly Community Theatre´ à New York, ´New England Conservatory´ à Boston, ´Royal Festival Hall´, ´Queen Elizabeth Hall´ à Londres, ´Palais de l'UNESCO´ de Beyrouth, ´Salle de l'UNESCO´, ´Mutualité´, ´Maison des Cultures du Monde´ à Paris, ´Centro Dionysia´ à Rome, ´Yerba Buena´ à San Francisco, ´Sõdra Teatern´ à Stokholm.
Depuis 1974 Marcel Khalifé participe à la composition musicale de spectacles de danse, ce qui donne, à travers un travail d'échange profond, un genre nouveau: le ballet oriental populaire ( Caracalla, Groupe Sarab, Rimah, Groupe d'Art Populaire ).
De même, Marcel Khalifé participe à la composition de musique de film documentaire et long métrage réalisés par Maroun Baghdadi, Oussama Mouhamad et d'autres ...
S'orientant vers des formes purement instrumentales Marcel Khalifé a composé récemment:
La symphonie du retour
Chronique concertante intitulée ´L'élégie de l'orient´
Concerto Al Andalus ´suite pour Oud et Orchestre´
´Moudaa'ba´ Caresse
Diwan Al Oud
´Jadal´ duo Oud
Qautuor Oud
L'écoute ´Al Sama´ dans les formes classiques arabes
´Takassim´ duo Oud — Contrebasse
Sa musique fut jouée par plusieurs orchestres notamment l'Orchestre symphonique de Kiev, l'Orchestre du Conservatoire de Boulogne Billancourt, The San Francisco Chambre Orchestra, l'Orchestre de la ville de Tunis et l'´Absolute Ensemble´
Depuis 1982 Marcel Khalifé se penche sur l'écriture des livres musicaux reflétant davantage son courage et le mûrissement de son expérience.
Son combat n'est pas seulement musical; Interprète et spécialiste du luth oriental, il est aussi un compositeur profondément attaché aux contenus des textes sur lesquels il s'appuie. En s'associant avec les grands poètes arabes contemporains, et principalement avec Mahmoud Darwish, il cherche à renouveler l'idéologie de la chanson arabe, à en briser les stéréotypes et à faire évoluer la société qui l'entoure.
Son recueil de chansons compte vingt albums dont:
Promesses de la tempête
Ahmad Al A'rabi
Les Noces
Salamon A'laeiki
Tousbihouna A'la Watan
Raqwit A'rab
Al Atfal
Al Jassad
Durant son parcours Marcel Khalifé invente et crée une musique originale, un univers sonore nouveau, libéré de toutes les règles pré-établies. Ce langage le hisse au rang d'ambassadeur de sa propre culture à l'avant-garde d'une musique orientale en quête de novateurs.
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Narrator: Ian McKellen
The Palestinian identity goes back, not to antiquity, but precisely to 1920. No "Palestinian Arab people" existed at the start of 1920 but by December it took shape in a form recognizably similar to today's.
This distaste was confirmed in April 1920, when the British occupying force carved out a "Palestine." Moslems reacted very suspiciously, rightly seeing this designation as a victory for Zionism. Less accurately, they worried about it signaling a revival in the Crusader impulse. No prominent Moslem voices endorsed the delineation of Palestine in 1920; all protested it. Instead, Moslems west of the Jordan directed their allegiance to Damascus, where the great-great-uncle of Jordan's King Abdullah II was then ruling; they identified themselves as Southern Syrians. Interestingly, no one advocated this affiliation more emphatically than a young man named Amin el-Husseini. In July 1920, however, the French overthrew this Hashemite king, in the process killing the notion of a Southern Syria. Isolated by the events of April and July, the Moslems of Palestine made the best of a bad situation. One prominent Jerusalemite commented, just days following the fall of the Hashemite kingdom: "after the recent events in Damascus, we have to effect a complete change in our plans here. Southern Syria no longer exists. We must defend Palestine."
Following this advice, the leadership in December 1920 adopted the goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state. Within a few years, this effort was led by el- Husseini.
The Sultan of Turkey conquered Palestine for his Ottoman Empire in 1517. For the next four hundred years, the Turks ruled Palestine as part of an administrative area called Greater Syria - which was to become the countries of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon in the twentieth century. Although Palestine was not a precisely defined geographic area until that time, the people of Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Gaza and Nablus and the peasants in the surrounding countryside used the term Filastin or Palestine to describe their land.
On July 2, 1919, the General Syrian Congress, meeting in Damascus, unanimously condemned the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, and the plans of the Zionists. They put a pointed question to the Great Powers: The Congress denounced the mandate system. It demanded that Greater Syria become one united and independent nation. As the resolutions became known, people demonstrated throughout Syria, Palestine and Lebanon in support of the Congress.
In the meantime, the King-Crane Commission had arrived in Jaffa. It consisted of only the two American representatives; France, Britain and Italy had backed out. The Commission spent six weeks in Syria and Palestine, interviewing delegations and reading petitions. King and Crane recommended an American mandate with two important provisions. First: The unity of Syria (Palestine, Syria and Lebanon) ought to be preserved in accordance with the earnest petition of the great majority of the people of Syria. A 1920 editorial in a Palestinian newspaper predicted the bloody era of the British mandate. It said: Palestine is Arab - its Muslims are Arab - its Christians are Arab - and its Jewish citizens are Arab too. Palestine will never by quiet if it is separated from Syria and made a national home for Zionism.
Arabs call 1920 Am Al Nakba, the Year of Catastrophe. Greater Syria was artificially divided into Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, and placed under French or British occupation. The occupying troops met strong resistance. French troops mowed down Syrians defending Damascus and imposed a harsh military dictatorship on Syria. In Iraq, armed rebellion challenged the British mandate.
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Guantánamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) and has occupied a portion of the United States Navy's base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002.[1] The prison holds people suspected by the executive branch of the U.S. government of being al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives, but with some people no longer considered suspects who are being held pending relocation elsewhere. The prisoners were captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. Guantanamo - Human Rights [More] [Less]
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Scarabeuz & Taleb Khalil feat. Omima - Wie Lange Noch
Scarabeuz & Taleb Khalil haben ihr erstes gemeinsames Video veröffentlicht und sich dazu auch gleich eine junge Dame mit an Bord geholt, Omima, die Queen der Gruppe Souluv.
"Wie lange noch" ist ein Track über Vorurteile und Misszustände, wie sie in der heutigen Welt leider viel zu oft vorkommen.
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After weeks of Israeli closure, Gaza Strip is completely out of bread
Dear Friends,
The Israeli government convinced many people that it "gave Gaza back to the Palestinians" a few months ago, but as the report below demonstrates, Israel still controls the people in Gaza, and now it is making them go without bread—literally. Gaza is not free; it is a huge prison controlled by Israel.
As long as there is a Jewish state in Palestine, Zionist leaders will subject non-Jews to racist policies like this. These policies are necessary because a Jewish state—in order to "secure" a Jewish majority population—needs to drive non-Jews out of the Jewish state part of Palestine and forcibly prevent them from returning to their country, all of which requires brutal measures to control Palestinians. The atrocities that Israel now commits in its occupation of the West Bank and control of Gazan borders are, as Israel says, security measures; the point is that they are designed to make secure that which should be abolished—a racist state (Israel itself, not just its occupation of the territories) based on oppression of and discrimination against non-Jews in ways that top South African trade unionist Willy Madisha, president of COSATU, said made South Africa's apartheid policies a "sunday picnic" in comparison.
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Tutu: Gaza blockade abomination
Archbishop Tutu describes his feelings after visiting Gaza
Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has called Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip an "abomination".
He strongly condemned what he called international "silence and complicity" on the blockade, which he compared to the actions of Burma's leaders.
Speaking at the end of a two day mission to the area, the former archbishop said the humanitarian situation there could not be justified.
Earlier, 60 Palestinians were detained in an Israeli raid on northern Gaza.
Residents in the Beit Hanoun area were summoned to a local square by Israeli troops with loudhailers before dozens were taken away, witnesses said.
'International complicity'
Mr Tutu was in Gaza on a United Nations fact-finding mission into the killing of 19 Palestinians by Israeli shellfire in November 2006.
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity, especially on the situation in Gaza, shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
Desmond Tutu
The former archbishop of Cape Town said the international community's "silence and complicity, especially on the situation in Gaza, shames us all".
Mr Tutu said conflicts were resolved through talking to enemies not friends.
He said his meeting with the deposed prime minister, Ismail Haniya, was an opportunity to tell the Hamas leader the firing of rockets into Israel was also a violation of human rights.
During his two-day visit, Mr Tutu met relatives of 19 civilians killed in the Israeli shelling of two houses in Beit Hanoun and is due to report his findings to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He condemned the incident as a "massacre".
Israel says the Beit Hanoun deaths in November 2006 were a mistake during action to target areas used by Palestinian militants.
The Israeli military confirmed its pre-dawn incursion into Gaza on Thursday and said about 60 "wanted Palestinians" were being interrogated.
Armoured military bulldozers destroyed farmland during the incursion, witnesses told AFP news agency.
Israeli forces launch frequent attacks into Gaza which they say are aimed at combating Palestinian militants who fire rockets into Israel.
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The UN Resolution of 1947 allocated 45% of British Mandate Palestine to a Palestinian State. In 1948, Israel occupied 78% of the land, leaving just 22% -- the West Bank and Gaza -- to the Palestinians. This is all they have been demanding since 1993. Now, Israel is robbing more than the better half of these 22% left. Six million Israelis are to have about 90% of the land (and water), whereas three-and-a-half million Palestinians, many of them refugees, are pushed to starve into what is left, locked behind gigantic walls in open-air prisons, with no land, no water and no hope. The moral way to peace, love and security, no doubt.
The Apartheid Wall will be 8m high and probably 1.000km long. For comparison, China's Great Wall -- the only human-made object seen from outer space -- is 6.700km long, whereas the Berlin Wall was a dwarf, just 155km long and 3,6m high. Keeping silent on this gigantic project and its genocidal implications, meant to prevent any fair future settlement (not to mention the Road Map), is a moral crime, of which almost the entire Western media is guilty.
-- Ran HaCohen
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Land and Borders:
Palestine, currently under occupation, is located on the East coast of the Miditerannean Sea, West of Jordan and to the south of Lebanon. The territory of Palestine covers around 10,435 square miles (almost same size as the state of Vermont in the USA - that is, pretty small.) [1]
Out of this territory, there are 10,163 square miles of land area. The rest is water: half of the area of the Dead Sea (al-BaHr al-Mayyit), Huleh Lake (BuHayrat al-Huuleh) which was dried by the occupation and Tiberias Lake (BuHayrat Tabariyyah) which is also known as the Sea of Galilee (BaHr al-jaliil).
Topography and Terrain:
Palestine can be divided into four main distinct regions:
* Coastal and Inner Plains:
These are among the best fertile land in Palestine and elsewhere, with adequate resources of irrigation (from rainfall and underground water). They are where most of the Palestinian citrus groves used to stand. The coastal stretch is divided by Jabal al-Karmel (Mount Carmel) into the plain of Akka (Acre) and the plain of Palestine (also called Saruunah). The inner part consists, largely, of Marj bin 3aamir. This one is triangular in shape, with Jenin and Nazareth (An-NaaSirah) as its base and the SE edge of the Akka plain as its sharp corner.
* The Mountains and Hills:
This part is largely rocky but has terraces which make it suitable for a number of trees. Olives is one of the most planted trees in these regions. There are almonds, apples and others. Also, there are patches of plains scattered around in this region and these are fully utilized: they are planted wheat, barely, lentils .. in Winter and vegetables during the Summer (mostly tomatoes, melons, maize and other vegetation that stands the hot weather). Mountains are located in al-Jaliil (Galilee), al-Karmel, Nablus and Hebron areas.
* The Jordan Valley and Ghawr:
This is well below sea level, hence the name ghawr, with very good soil but very little water resources. Agriculture there depends on irrigation either from local streams or the Jordan River. Due to its climate, that region used to produce summer vegetables in late Winter stretching the availability of fresh produce before electricity and refregerators. The two lakes are at the northern edge of this region.
* The Southern Desert:
This region comprises almost half of the land of Palestine. It is also triangular in shape. The base is fertile and the rest, with its apex near the town of Aqaba, is poor with scattered patches of regions suitable for cultivation. Bi'r as-Sab' (renamed Beersheba by the occupation) is the main town in that region.[2]
Population:
There has never been an accurate official census in Palestine since the roots of the recent aggression. Hadawi states that at the end of 1918 (WW1), there were 700,000 people living in Palestine. These were divided into 574,000 Muslims, 70,000 Christians and 56,000 Jews. Almost all the Palestinian Christians are Arabs and most of the Jews as well (up to around 1900 AD). These numbers check positively with the estimate that only 6% to 7% of the total Palestinian population was Jewish right after the first Zionist congress in Basel. It is also consistent with what David Newman's statement [3] that: between 1800 and 1945, The Jewish Population of Palestine increased from approximately 25,000 to 600,000, eventually comprising some 33 per cent of the country's population.
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