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http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm
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[[Mark Twain]] in his book [[The Innocents Abroad]], 1867, wrote:
There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent [valley of Jezreel] -- not for 30 miles in either direction. . . . One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings.
For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to [[Galilee]]... [[Nazareth]] is forlorn... Jericho lies a moldering ruin... [[Bethlehem]] and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation... untenanted by any living creature... A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds... a silent, mournful expanse... a desolation... We never saw a human being on the whole route... Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country... Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes... desolate and unlovely...
From Time Immemorial - Evidence of Unrecorded "Arab Immigration into Pre-State Israel: 1922-1931"
From Time Immemorial - Evidence of Unrecorded "Arab Immigration into Pre-State Israel: 1922-1931"
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2139
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2139