... desire that no decision be taken with respect to the basic situation in that country without full consultation with both Arabs and Jews."3 This succinctly illustrates the attitude Roosevelt had towards the partition of Palestine. Subsequently, a week later, Roosevelt was dead and had been replaced by Vice President Harry Truman, which resulted in the course of the partition of Palestine having a dramatic shift. This is due to President ... up almost a third of the population and had owned 6-8 percent of the total land area, were to receive 56 percent of the land, however the Arabs were ...

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... of the major contributions to the spread of Christianity to Roman Mesopotamia is the network of roads manned by the Roman empire. The Via Maris which stretched from Egypt through Palestine branched out to the East in the Galilee region toward Damascus; and another branched north, passing through Asia Minor eventually to join the Via Egnatia into Europe. Likewise the King's Highway branched from the Via Maris through the Negev desert to the eastern shore of the Dead ... there were smaller exodus to the villages such as seen in the Christian villages in Upper Galilee and Syria. The fourth...

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... would last until 1921. Few Russian Jews were not to be affected by the war, massive pogroms in the Ukraine alone left over 200,000 dead (6). By 1921 the overwhelming poverty of the Jewish population forced the Soviet government to take action. The "normalization" of the Jewish population was proposed in a response to further integrate Jews into the socialist economy and society. Jews involved in commerce and retail had been economically ... with the creation of the Jewish Autonomous District involved a number of organizations and individuals. In late 1924 two organizations were created,...

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