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Worcester Telegram · 7 October 1956

CP-1956-042

Ruined Jordan Sector Outpost Reminiscent of Biblical Battles

Ruined Jordan Sector Outpost Reminiscent of Biblical Battles — Worcester Telegram, 7 October 1956
Worcester Telegram · 7 October 1956
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“Ruined Jordan Sector Outpost Reminiscent of Biblical Battles”

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Maria marked this one to make clear the village is Palestine. The headline does something further than renaming it: it turns a place where people had just been killed into scenery, and dates the scenery to the Bible.

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"Ruined Jordan Sector Outpost Reminiscent of Biblical Battles," Worcester Telegram, 7 October 1956. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1956-042. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1956-042

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1799 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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