erusalem is the capital. Palestine, currently under occupation, is located on the East coast of the Mediterranean Sea, West of Jordan and to the south of Lebanon. The territory of Palestine covers around 10,435 square miles.

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Jerusalem's Arabic roots go back 5,000 years to the time when the city of Arab Yabous (Jerusalem) was founded. As Islam has dominated the culture of the Middle East for the last 1,400 years, it has dominated Jerusalem. The historic city of Jerusalem with its Arab culture, heritage, architecture, possesses many significant monuments and sacred shrines and there is an agreement on the urgent need and duty to preserve these sites, as well as Jerusalem as a whole.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Israel steals Palestinian foods like couscous and markets them as Israeli


  Oct. 13, 2010
PA TV interviews Majdulin Salameh, representing the Ministry of Tourism, on the international couscous festival in Sicily:
 
PA TV host: "Let’s talk about the plan for Palestinian participation in this international [couscous] festival, and about the importance of couscous as a popular Palestinian heritage dish, and the theft of this dish by Israel, to the extent that one year it [Israel] participated in this festival and won, [presenting] couscous as an Israeli dish...Couscous, like the other popular dishes and heritage foods, and even the Palestinian debka [dance], has been stolen and marketed as Israeli. What is your role, in the Ministry of Tourism, in stopping these attempts and the Israeli theft?"

Majdulin Salameh: "Our presence [at the festival] in and of itself is a form of struggle and resistance against the entire manner of the Israeli side in stealing our heritage. Not only with couscous but, as you mentioned, there are things that they try to take and to attribute to themselves, such as other popular Palestinian foods, like humus, falafel, embroidery. Lots of things. This is our task as the Ministry of Tourism: we are present at all international forums where it is possible that there will be a threat or a danger to the Palestinian heritage, which will be marketed as Israeli heritage rather than as Palestinian."
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  1. I would have to say that Israel is a wonderful place. I love Jerusalem. I love the beaches and the Golden City. I am definitely going back.

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  2. The owners of the place love it too. That's not good for the thieving Europeans, it means they can't hold it forever.

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  3. You know, pretty soon, if not already, the majority of Israeli Jews will be descendents of those exiled from Arab lands in the 1950s. I sympathize with the Palestinian plight, I really do. What I have no sympathy for is the attempt to deny the importance of Jerusalem and its holy sites to the Jews. And Israeli couscous aren't even couscous, it's toasted pasta made popular during a rice shortage.

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Salam, keep it nice, please.

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1936

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3-Dead Sea
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