Back in the 1800s, Arabs living in Palestine were thriving and were turning the land into an oasis of green. True or False?
“Stirring scenes…occur in the valley (Jezreel) no more. There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent – not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings.” To find “…the sort of solitude to make one dreary…Come to Galilee for that…these unpeopled deserts, these rusty mounds of barrenness, that never, never, never do shake the glare from their harsh outlines, and fade and faint into vague perspective, that melancholy ruin of Capernaum: this stupid village of Tiberias, slumbering under its six funeral palms.” “Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes…desolate and unlovey…it is dreamland.” From Mark Twain’s trip to the Holy Land in 1867.
Related Questions
- Back in the 1800s, Arabs living in Palestine were thriving and were turning the land into an oasis of green. True or False?
- Jews were mostly living outside of Palestine for a long time, doesn that reduce their claim to the land?
- Weren the Arabs living in Palestine for hundreds of years or millenea before the Jews came?
