... -Israeli conflict is situated in what used to be known as Palestine, but today is referred to as Israel. The land variously called Israel and Palestine is a small, (10,000 square miles at present) land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Some time between about 1800 and 1500 B.C., a Semitic people called Hebrews left Mesopotamia and settled in Canaan. According to ... ...

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... , when the land was divided into three parts: the state of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River) and the Gaza Strip. This area is only about 10,000 square miles, about the size of Maryland.(1) Conversely, according to many other sources, what is known as Palestine today, before 1900 was never an individual nation but mostly a barren, empty land surrounded ... ...

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