quote: Mark Twain in writing of the region that we now call Palestine described it as a land that was desolate and not inhabited, “There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent -- not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings.” “ ...a desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent mournful expanse....A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action....We never saw a human being on the whole route....There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.” - 1867 (Quoted in Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad. London: 1881) The Palestinian flag is the Jordanian flag with the star removed. What became of these Arabs? They had never had a national identity as such, but for political reasons one was fabricated between 1964 and 1967. Former PLO member Walid Shoebat even said “We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem [The reunification in 1967.] Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.”
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:15:29 +0000
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