The Etzion bloc had belonged to Jews pre-1948, but during the War of 1948 the inhabitants were killed or driven off, and Jordan took the land.
Nadine,
Thanks for the background.
Some of my friends' parents owned land near the "Green Line," too, and they were driven off in 1948 -49, only it was the Israelis who took their land, not the Jordanians.
During their "diaspora" the family went to Lebanon and two of the children (my age) went to study at the A.U.B. in Beirut, one becoming a doctor and the other an accountant.
All of the sons and daughters and grandchildren hope to someday regain the ancestral land that was taken from them. They're Christians, btw, so I doubt they have much in common with Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, etc. In fact, one is now an American citizen whose husband is highly placed at AT&T Broadband. Their kids go to my wife's Sunday School, but are always proud to identify themselves as "Palestinians."
It's a small world, isn't it?
Climber |
