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	Palestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Several names for the region are found in the Bible: (Eretz) Yisrael "(land of) Israel", Eretz Ha-Ivrim "land of the Hebrews", "land flowing with milk and honey", "land that [God] swore to your fathers to assign to you", "Holy Land", and "land of the LORD".
		Filastin (فلسطين), originally an Arabic transcription of the Greek term Palaistina, was the name of one of the districts of Syria in the Fatimid and Abbasid Caliphates of the 7th to 11th centuries, was briefly the heart of the Crusader States and then part of the Mamluk empire.
		Palestine has been recognized as a state (in the de jure sense) by 94 countries[1], and there is a seat for "Palestine" in the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Conference.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/palestine (2095 words)

	PALESTINE - LoveToKnow Article on PALESTINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is, however, conventionally used as a name for the territory which, in the Old Testament, is claimed as the inheritance of the pre-exilic Hebrews; thus it may be said generally to denote the southern third of the province of Syria.
		Palestine is essentially a land of small divisions, and its configuration does not fit it to form a separate entity; it has never belonged to one nation and probably never will.3 Its position gives the key to its history.
		The place of the Old Testament in the general education of the world is at the close of one era and at the beginning of another.
	95.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PALESTINE.htm (18138 words)

	Palestine article - Palestine places the U.S. named Palestine definitions Palestine disputed - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Palestine (Tiberian Hebrew פלשת Pəléšeṯ / Pəlāšeṯ, Latin Syria Palæstina, Standard Hebrew פלשתינה Palestina, ארץ־ישראל Éreẓ-Yisraʾel, Arabic فلسطين Filasṭīn, Standard Hebrew (of modern Arabic political term) פלסטין Filastin), is a region in the Middle East extending inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
		The "State of Palestine", whose independence was declared by the PLO in the 1980s, claims these territories, and 2/3 of the world's nations recognize the "State of Palestine" as a state, though it lacks many characteristics of a typical independent country, such as monetary independence and clear borders.
		Palestine has been recognized as a state (in the de jure sense) by 94 countries[1] (http://www.pna.gov.ps/Government/gov/recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine.asp), and there is a seat for "Palestine" in the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Conference.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Palestine (2221 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Palestine
		4 Palestine from the Byzantines to the Ottomans
		This name later ballooned into the name for the whole of the Levant as "Palestine", when Gentiles were looking to recolonise it during the Greco-Roman eras.
		Palestine became part of the Byzantine Empire after the division of the Roman Empire into east and west (a fitful process that was not finalized until 395).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Palestine (10498 words)

	British Mandate of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Mandate of Palestine was a swathe of territory in the Middle East, formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, which the League of Nations entrusted to the United Kingdom to administer in the aftermath of World War I as a Mandate Territory.
		The United Kingdom was granted control of Palestine by the Versailles Peace Conference which established the League of Nations in 1919 and appointed Herbert Samuel, a former Postmaster General in the British cabinet who was instrumental in drafting the Balfour Declaration, as its first High Commissioner in Palestine.
		The Palestine Mandate was an explicit document regarding Britain's responsibilities and powers of administration in Palestine including: "secur[ing] the establishment of the Jewish national home", and "safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_mandate_of_Palestine (2945 words)

	t r u t h o u t - TO INVESTIGATION: Reporters Without Borders \| Two Murders and a Lie
		A "senior defence official" was quoted as saying US troops in Baghdad "were not briefed as thoroughly as pilots on what targets to avoid or treat with particular caution" and that the rules of engagement were different on the ground, with soldiers fired on having the right to respond, wherever the shooting came from.
		US forces had responded to "hostile fire" that seemed to come from a place later identified as the Palestine Hotel, he said, and the force used was proportionate to the threat to US forces.
		Since the so-called "completed" US Army report on the killing of two journalists at the Palestine Hotel is not in fact complete, Reporters Without Borders demands the reopening of the enquiry to answer the real questions raised by their deaths.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/022505A.shtml (14951 words)

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		Places in the US named Palestine Palestine is the name of several places across the United States: Palestine, Arkansas (...
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	Palestine at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Palestine (Latin Syria Palestina, Hebrew Palestina [פלשתינה] or Eretz Yisrael [ארץ־ישראל], Arabic Filasteen [فلسطين]), is a region in the Middle East extending inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
		Filastin (فلسطين), originally an Arabic transcription of the Greek term Palaistina, was the name of one of the districts of Syria during the Muslim empire of the 7th to 11th centuries, and of a somewhat smaller district during the 14th century.
		The "State of Palestine", whose independence was declared by the PLO in the 1980s, claims these territories, but only about 2/3 of the world's nations recognize the "State of Palestine" as a state.
	wiki.tatet.com /Palestine.html (2057 words)

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		1:4; 4:4, 29: Esther 1:5; 7:7), and a fortified place or an enclosure (Ezek.
		The place of the captives carried away was supplied by tribes brought from the east, and thus was formed the Samaritan nation (2 Kings 17:24-29).
		The commonest partridge in Palestine is the Caccabis saxatilis, the Greek partridge.
	www.ccel.org /e/easton/ebd/ebd/T0002800.html (10660 words)

	1400 - 1962
		Keren Keyemeth (Jewish National Fund) founded as land-acquisition organ of WZO with the function of acquiring land in Palestine to be inalienably Jewish with exclusively Jewish labour employed on it.
		Tarab Abdul Hadi speaks in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Matiel Mogannam in the Dome of the Rock mosque warning of the replacement oif Arab population of Palestine with Jewish immigrants.
		May 25: The United States (US) joins Britain and France in the Tripartite statement of policy, binding the 3 nations to oppose "the use of force between any states" in the area and to supply only those arms to Israel and Arab countries which needed for "legitimate self-defence".
	www.passia.org /palestine_facts/chronology/14001962.htm (3596 words)

	Oregon Facts: Interesting Names and Places in Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The name was not used by Lewis and Clark nor Astor's petition to Congress in 1812.
		The origin of the name was Sik-ses-tine, an Indian word which meant 'people by the far north country.' It was shortened by gold miners to Sikhs, which they knew meant 'friend' in the Chinook jargon.
		Named for a crossing on the property of Henry Shigh.
	www.webtrail.com /applegate/oregon.html (730 words)

	USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
		Similarly we know that of the rites of Hajj, the throwing of pebbles at jamarah takes place on the 13th of Zhul-Hijjah, while the scholars agree that the circumambulation of Ifadah, which is one of the essential rites of Hajj, may be performed anytime in the month of Zhul-Hijjah.
		Mawaqit of place are the specific places where a pilgrim or a person intending to visit Makkah for 'Umrah or Hajj must declare his intention to do so and put on ihram, the pilgrim garb.
		For those coming from Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon, the miqat is Al-Juhfah, a place 187 kilometres to the north-west of Makkah, and close to Rabigh, which is 204 kilometres from Makkah.
	www.usc.edu /dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/fus5_69.html (995 words)

	Palestine, Texas.
		The Original County Seat was a town named Fort Houston.
		The County was named for vice-president of Texas Kenneth Lewis Anderson.
		Palestine is joined to nearby Rusk (25 miles) by the Texas State Railroad.
	www.texasescapes.com /TOWNS/Palestine/Palestine_Texas.htm (553 words)

	Death-Valley.us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gold was among the first metals to be mined because it commonly occurs in its native form, that is, not combined with other elements, because it is beautiful and imperishable, and because exquisite objects can be made from it.
		Through laboratory research, the U.S. Geological Survey has developed new methods for determining the gold content of rocks and soils of the Earth's crust.
		Studies of rock structures, such as folds, faults, fractures, and joints, and of the effects of heat and pressure on rocks suggest why and where fractures occurred and where veins might be found.
	www.death-valley.us /contentid-76.html (3201 words)

	Eusebius of Caesarea: The History of the Martyrs in Palestine (1861). Translated by William Cureton.
		This name, therefore, was also extended to those great multitudes of confessors who were under sentence of condemnation in the whole of the land of Egypt: for there were a hundred martyrs there all but three.
		The name of the first was Hatha, and her father's house was in the land of Gaza; and the other was from Caesarea, our own city, and she was well known to many, and her name was Valentina.
		The name of the first of them was Antoninus, and the second was called Zebinas, and the third's name was Germanus; and these things were done on the thirteenth of Teshri the latter.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/eusebius_martyrs.htm (14339 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The suit, filed in US District Court on Wednesday, April 20, named Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff among four defendants in what the New York Civil Liberties Union called a case of profiling, according to Reuters on Thursday, April 21.
		A May 2004 report released by the US Senate Office Of Research concluded that Arab Americans and the Muslim community in the US have taken the brunt of the Patriot Act and other federal powers applied in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
		Amnesty International said that racial profiling by US law enforcement agencies had grown over the past years to cover one in nine Americans, mostly targeting Muslims.
	www.islamonline.org /English/News/2005-04/21/article04.shtml (851 words)

	Wayne Madsen: Trading Places
		Bands of saboteurs and terrorists, having infiltrated from the territory of Pakistan.
		It's completely clear to me us that Afghanistan is not ready at this time to resolve all the issues it faces through socialism.
		Alexander the Great failed (even though the Afghan city of Kandahar is named for him in a phonetically corrupt fashion); the Russians and their successors, the Soviets, failed; Britain failed; and most assuredly, the United States will never be able to turn Afghanistan into a democracy.
	www.counterpunch.org /madsen04262004.html (2723 words)

	ipedia.com: Places in the US named Palestine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Palestine is the name of several places across the United States : Palestine, Arkansas Palestine, Illinois Palestine, Ohio Palestine, Texas Palestine, West Virginia There are also: East Palestine, Ohi...
		Places in the US named Palestine Article - ipedia.com
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.ipedia.com /places_in_the_us_named_palestine.html (136 words)

	Arab Radio on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At eBay you can find practically anything, even arab radio.
		eBay's the place to buy or sell electronics, cars, clothing, apparel, collectibles, sporting goods, digital cameras and more.
		Every product from every store means you get a bargain price.
	www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/arab_radio.html (316 words)

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		Should the U.S. have gone to war with Iraq, with or without the U.N.?
		Should the words "under God" be in the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance?
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	Tatet - palestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		North America > United States > US States > Indiana > Indiana cities and locations > New Palestine
		Fine art travel and edirorial stock photography from around the Middle East and North Africa by Damascus based Photographer John Wreford.
		: For cities in the US named Palestine, see: Places in the US named Palestine : For varying definitions, see Definitions of Palestine {{msg:npov}} Palestine (Latin Syria Palestina, Hebrew languageHebrew Palestina פל...
	tatet.com /search-palestine.html (306 words)

	Ohio, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	www.worldhistory.com /locality/US/IL/Ohio-Illinois.htm (120 words)

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