Travel  A Trip to the Past
Photo journey: North Israel in 1920s
Nadav Man
Published: 21.05.11, 10:56
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1. Where is Arab Palestine? All I see is an empty wilderness
(05.21.11)
2. Israel in 1922 or Palestine in 1922
ed   (05.21.11)
That was Palestine not Israel. There was no such thing as Israel in 1922 it was Palestine. Israel became so in 1948 after the Nakba. Do not distort history.
3. #2 We always called it Eretz Israel
jake   (05.21.11)
The State of Israel was established in 1948, but Jews have always called it the Land of Israel, Eretz Israel, throughout the ages. That is why on all official Mandate documentation when written in the Hebrew language, the term 'Eretz Israel' formed part of the name of the Palestine Mandate. And while the term 'Palestine' was the official name of the territory during the mandate, it was not so before that. By contrast, the rest of the world has not referred to it as 'Palestine' for most of its history. In fact, Renaissance-era maps very often label it as Judaea.
4. #2
JL   (05.21.11)
we will distort whatever we want...you never were or ever will be a state...
5. ed # 2
DAVID ,   HERZLIA,ISRAEL   (05.21.11)
ALL THE AREA WHICH INCLUDES WHAT IS TODAY JORDAN WAS CALLED PALESTINE , THE BRITISH CREATED JORDAN IN THE LARGEST SECTION OF THE PALESTINE MANDATE AND LEFT A SMALL PART FOR THE ARABS AND JEWS TO FIGHT OVER IT. PALESTINA WAS THE TERMS USED BY THE ROMANS OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO WHEN THEY CONQUERED THE LAND.
6. Dear Ed
mea   (05.21.11)
Perhaps you could grasp that for Jews, "Ed", Israel represents the physical place that is also spiritual and eternal, created and gifted by G-d long before the Caanites were there, before everything, Israel is the physical residence of G-d. When Jewish people refer to Israel we refer to something that was no briefly interrupted by the modern fantasy that because colonial bureaucrats in England once slapped a fictitious name on a chart it manifested into a people, or a location. No one is distorting history except those bureaucrats, Arab interests that deny Jordan is the actual state of Palestinians and their under educated supporters. Israel has had a continuous Jewish presence for 3700 years or more. Deal with it.
7. They'll be shipped back to their country: Siberia
NW ,   USA   (05.21.11)
And sure they can get compensation from Siberia for forcing them to leave in the 1920 and go occupy Palestine.
8. When they conquered after the JEWS, you mean?
Fran ,   Madrid Spain   (05.21.11)
After 3.000 years? And 3.700 years before "islam" existed, you mean? Maybe the whole world is Muslim as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says and we do not know. Maybe it is just Muslim propaganda simply does not stay on foot.
9. #7 Siberia is not a country
Jake   (05.22.11)
No wonder you think there is a country called "Palestine".
10. #2 LOL - #7 in the US where did your family immigrate from?
Joshua ,   Israel   (05.22.11)
#2, I think the replies on the talkback sum up real history for you. #7 -- are you native american, or did your family come from someplace to form some occupation? Anyway, regarding the pictures - amazing! So cool. Compare it to the way it looks now, amazing what has been accomplished. On the other hand, special snap shots of yesteryear, when there was so little here and yet people kept returning to their homeland!
11. to #7 by the pictures I don't think they
ghostq   (05.22.11)
occupay anything especially in picture #9 the BG is not exactly with any habitat.
12. @2: 'Palestine' isn't even an Arab word
World Traveller ,   Perth, Australia   (05.23.11)
It's a Greek word. When Arabs call themselves 'Palestinians' or 'Filistin' they're proving that they came long after the land was inhabited by others and just adopted the native people's word. The name 'Palestine' comes long after the names Judea and Israel, which shoes those ancient Europeans who initially referred to the place as Palestine came after the Israelites. So get in line #2, you can make your claim after the Greeks, and the Greeks can make their claim after the Israelites.
13. Great pictures
Hillel ,   Israel   (05.23.11)
They show how much we Jews have built up the country!!! Not like many Arab countries that have barely advanced in the last century.
14. Palestine vs. Kanaanys Land
Mr. G ,   NY,NY   (06.25.11)
We should look deeper in history to understand, Palestinian or Filistini or where ever you call them are oreganaly called Kanaanys , kanaanys been living in a land called ( in arabic Arred Beny Kanaan) what we know as Palestine. when God ask Moses to cross the sinai desert towered Palestine, most jews reused to go with him, why ,gb because they know those Kanaanys are very strong and powerful, every one believe God should go and live in palestine , jews , cristian,muslim. we all believe Ibrahim,Moses,David. so all welcome to Kanaanys Land.
15. #2
Vicki ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.25.12)
Not Palestine my friend. British Mandatory Palestine.
16. fotos
louise acoca ,   albuquerque   (10.14.15)
amazing pix....thank you for putting them out there.
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