tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post3194001550490757288..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: Diggers Who Died for Israel?MERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-8256722032616872772010-11-15T08:04:44.221+11:002010-11-15T08:04:44.221+11:00'Towards the end of the 19th century, the Otto...'Towards the end of the 19th century, the Ottomans redeveloped the city. They built a police station in Beersheba in order to keep the Bedouin in check. They built roads and a number of small buildings from local materials which are still standing today. A town plan was created by a Swiss and a German architect, which called for a grid street pattern,[7] a pattern which can still be seen today in Beersheba's Old City. All houses built during that period were of one storey, and the two-storey police station towered above them. Most of the residents at the time were Arabs from Hebron and the Gaza area, although Jews also began settling in the city, and a slew of Bedouin abandoned their nomadic lives and built homes in Beersheba.'<br /><br />'The 1947 UN Partition Plan included Beersheba in the territory allotted to the proposed Arab state as the city's population of 4,000 was primarily Arab<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba<br /><br />so in 1917, the aussies met mostly arabs....who have since been expelled..the current inhabitants are mostly new immigrantsbrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17796306949045047712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-83707020632410803732010-11-15T07:56:47.978+11:002010-11-15T07:56:47.978+11:00back in 1917 the inhabitants of Be'er Sheva wo...back in 1917 the inhabitants of Be'er Sheva would have been mostly arab palestinians...brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17796306949045047712noreply@blogger.com