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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: ajs who wrote (2013)4/8/2002 1:17:00 PM
From: Nukeit   of 32591
 
I came across these articles IN-DEPTH MIDEAST CENTURIES OF CONFLICT. Gives a history time line also. Nice short articles to give an overview of the situation.

cnn.com

How Palestine became Israel

From antiquity until the 20th century the name Palestine more often described a region than a place with precise boundaries. It is derived from what the Greeks and Romans called the "Land of the Philistines," referring to an ancient people who were contemporaries of the biblical Israelites as early as the 12th century B.C.
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