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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (23956)	4/8/2002 5:33:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I was just surprised that you didn't know them, since you have often pointed out the arbitrary nature of the borders in the Mideast, all of which were drawn up in the British and French Foreign Offices. In the nineteenth century, Palestine was part of southern Syria, and was administratively divided between the vileyats of Damascus and Beirut, and the Independent Sanjak of Jerusalem. The British Foreign Office drew the borders of Palestine in 1918; there hadn't been any similar borders in the area since the Crusader Kingdom was destroyed in the thirteenth century. One reason that it's easy for the Arabs to consider Israel another Crusader Kingdom...