The Middle East Crisis
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The Middle East Crisis
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.069

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Abstract

At the turn of the twentieth century, Palestine—modern-day Israel, the West Bank of the Jordan River facing Israel, and the Gaza Strip—was a diverse but quiet place. Long an ethnic and religious crossroads in the southwestern Asian world, it was then a province in the Ottoman Empire. Palestine’s oldest population was Jewish, but they amounted to only 10 percent of the people in the province; another 15 percent were Lebanese and Syrian Christians, and the rest were largely Arabic, Turkish, Syrian, and Egyptian Muslims.

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