tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post3769115806115880330..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: My grandfather practised Judaism in secretUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-3353034919276233792018-06-20T19:44:20.531+01:002018-06-20T19:44:20.531+01:00Shirley makes the regrettable error of thinking th...Shirley makes the regrettable error of thinking that the Land of Israel was "palestine" in 1842 or before. Actually, the traditional Arab and Muslim geography saw the country as an indistinct part of <i>bilad ash-Sham</i> [Syria or Greater Syria]. The Ottoman Empire never made Israel a separate district or province. Instead it was divided into districts [sanjaqs] subordinated to the wilaya of Damascus [Sham] until after the Crimean War in the 1850s. But the Ottoman state never called the country or any part of it "palestine" or "filastin" until the empire fell apart in the wake of WW One.<br /><br />Just by the way, the main reason for the Mahdi's revolt was that the British tried to suppress the slave raiding and slave trade by the Arab/Muslims of Sudan against their non-Muslim neighbors. This not widely enough known.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com