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Arab Claims to Palestine What is the Arab historical connection with Palestine? What is the source of their claims? The Arabs' homeland is not Palestine, but Arabia, the southwestern peninsula of Asia. Its 1,027,000 square miles embrace the present-day Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Trucial Oman on the Persian Gulf, Muscat and Oman, and South Yemen. When in the seventh century, with the birth of the new Islamic religion, the Arabs emerged from the desert with an eye to conquest; they succeeded in establishing an empire that within a century extended over three continents, from the Atlantic Ocean to the border of China. Early in their phenomenal progress, they conquered Palestine from the Byzantines. Purely Arab rule, exercised from Damascus by the Omayyad dynasty, lasted a little over a century. Their bitter antagonists, the Abbasids, whose two centuries of government was increasingly dominated first by Persians, then by Turks, overthrew the Omayyads...

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