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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: marcos who wrote (102989)6/26/2003 1:04:57 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>It was not a 'land without a people'<<

Last night I read the "Palestine" entry in my circa 1951 Encyclopedia Brittanica. One does get the understanding that the area was very backward and isolated. Not much happened there for several centuries. Periodically a conqueror would sweep through, e.g., Napoleon went through but kept going.

T.E. Lawrence did a walking tour of the area, circa 1909, visiting crusader castles, for his honor's thesis for Oxford. He kept a diary but it doesn't appear to be available online. In my imagination, the region looked like what we see in David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia." One story buildings that appear to be made from mud, dirt roads, lots of desert, the occasional oasis.

Which doesn't mean inhabited, just backward. I've seen similar places in Mexico.
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