User: Tiamut

• ...that Tawfiq Canaan, a Palestinian physician and medical pioneer, was also known for his research on Palestinian popular heritage?

• ...that Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia is the second Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem?

• ...that Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?

• ...that the Defense (Emergency) Regulations first enacted in British Mandate Palestine in 1945 were incorporated into Israel's domestic legislation in 1948 and remain in force to this day?

• ...that at the time of Roman rule in Palestine, the village of Um ar-Rehan, now located in the Barta'a enclave of the Seam Zone, held a hundred houses, a road system and a Roman bathhouse?

• ...that according to Greek mythology, Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon?

• ...that the White Mosque is the oldest mosque in Nazareth?

• ...that Thursday of the Dead is a springtime feast day shared by Muslims and Christians in the Levant that involves colouring eggs, visiting the cemetery and distributing food to the poor?

• ...that the liwan, a long narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal often open to the outside, has been a feature of Levantine homes for more than 2,000 years?

• ...that "Palestinian archaeology" can refer to a field of archaeological inquiry known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and more recently, to archaeological research conducted by Palestinians themselves?

• ...that since as early as the 10th century, Nabulsi soap, a traditional olive oil-based soap, has been exported across the Arab world and even to Europe?

• ...that Mavia was an Arab queen who in 378 AD personally led her troops out of southern Syria in revolt against Roman rule?

• ...that Moses, the first Arab Orthodox bishop, administered his duties while journeying with a nomadic confederation of Arabs in the fourth century?

• ...that the Hebron glass industry goes back to at least the thirteenth century?

• ...that the olive tree is the ultimate symbol of sumud, a key ideological theme among Palestinians since the 1967 war?

• ...that the village of Anasartha, located in Western Syria and today known as Khanasser, derived its water supply until 1975 from a 12-kilometre long Byzantine-era qanat?

• ... that Yalo, a Palestinian Arab village depopulated during the 1967 war, was identified by Edward Robinson as the site of the Canaanite-era city of Aijalon?

• ...that al-Karmil, an Arabic language newspaper first published in Haifa in 1908, was founded with the express purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization"?

• ...that Tarab Abdul Hadi co-founded the first Palestinian women's organization in 1929?

• ...that the ataaba is a traditional Arabic music form in which oral folk poetry is melodically improvised by a solo vocalist?

• ... that most of the place names in Palestine are Arabised words with ancient Semitic roots that were preserved by the local indigenous population, facilitating their identification with biblical sites?

• ...that the Semitic triliteral Q-D-S meaning "holy" has been used in ancient and modern Semitic languages since at least the 3rd millenium BCE?

• ...that K-B-D, a triliteral root meaning "heavy" that is common to all Semitic languages, appears in the Old Testament 376 times?

• ... that Jacob's Well (pictured) in Nablus is a site associated with Jacob in Jewish, Samaritan, Christian and Muslim tradition?

• ... that during the Crusader era in Palestine, the village of Kafr Lam (fortress pictured) was sold to the Hospitallers by the lord of Caesarea for 16,000 besants?

• ...that local legend in Lajjun, a district center in Palestine under the Abbasids, held that the spring that served as its primary water source sprang from a stone after Abraham struck it with his staff?

• ...that Hittin was a Palestinian village located near the site of the Battle of Hattin, where Saladin (pictured) defeated the Crusaders in 1187?

• ...that during the Crusader era in Palestine, the village of Kafr Lam (pictured) was sold to the Hospitallers by the lord of Caesarea for 16,000 besants?

• ...that Jacob's Well (pictured) in Nablus is a site associated with Jacob in Jewish, Samaritan, Christian and Muslim tradition?

• ... that Nabi Shu'ayb, Arabic for "the Prophet Jethro", is used in English to refer to the site where Druze tradition holds he was buried?

• 1948 - 1966 Military administrative government over Arab areas in Israel.Farsakh, Leila. [http://mondediplo.com/2003/11/04apartheid "Israel an apartheid state?"], Le Monde diplomatique, November 2003
• 1950: Israel's Population Registry Act becomes law.{{cite book |title=Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben Gurion |first=Eliezer |last=Ben Rafael |pages=144 |year=2002 |publisher=Brill Academic Publishers |isbn=9004125353}}
• 1960: Israel Land Administration established.{{cite web |url=http://www.mmi.gov.il/Envelope/indexeng.asp?page=/static/eng/f_general.html |title=Israel Land Administration: General Info |publisher=Government of Israel}}McGreal, Chris. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1703245,00.html "Worlds apart"], The Guardian, February 6, 2006.
• 1961: Hendrik Verwoerd, prime minister of South Africa, claims "Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state."
• 1967: Israel captures the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the Six Day War
• 1971: Yakov Malik, Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations, accuses Israel of a "racist policy of apartheid against Palestinians"
• 1975 Idi Amin Dada, President of Uganda, accused Israel of apartheid in the United Nations General Assembly.
• 1990 West Bank Closure system begins to be constructed and is later institutionalized by Oslo Agreements.
• 1994 Israeli Gaza Strip barrier is constructed.
• 1999 Ehud Barak becomes Prime Minister of Israel campaigning under the slogan of "Us here. Them there," {{cite book |title=The Struggle for Palestine |last=Selfa |first=Lance |year=2002 |publisher=Haymarket Books |isbn=1931859000 |chapter=5 |pages=pp 76-7}} a concept-turned policy known in Israel as Hafrada (Separation)
• 2002 Construction of Israeli West Bank barrier, called an "apartheid wall" or "Hafrada Wall" by critics, and "anti-terror wall" by supporters, begins.
• October 14, 2003 Ahmad Hajihosseini, Observer for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), says "the form of apartheid Israel practise[s] against Palestinians fulfill[s] all elements of the crime as defined under the 1976 apartheid Convention."[http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/sc7895.doc.htm Press Release SC/7895], UN Security Council, 14 October 2003
• 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law passed.Adam, Heribert & Moodley, Kogila. op. cit. p. 23.
• 2006 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter releases his book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.

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Kudna: The area was populated by the Shadfan family, who were forced to flee during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. All that remains of the Shadfan family is an old water well (that is said to have a special ability to cause women who drink from it to give birth to boys, rather than girls), a few ancient ruins (including a rock-made device for crushing olives), the remains of a fence, and their family cemetery.

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