I second that. for example many country within West Africa were originally North African. For example where Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania and 95% of Mali originally was ancient Ghana and used to share the neigbouring borders with Morocco and Algeria. Nigeria used to share the border wiht Lybia and so on.
Unfortunately for many African's the scar of having their Mothre Land carved and relocated for political reasons hasn't gone away. Some countries although retain the strong African sense of Pride, Culture, History and the list goes on, many can't bear to talk about how their countries were before the carving. As it is too painful and in certain cases cannot be regained unfortunately so.
For me a person who researching (and am typing this whilst trying not to cry) the ancient history of Ancient kingdoms of Africa (Ghana, Mali, Songhay, etc) which still exists but some are under different names and locations, the carving up caused problems which have taken and may take many generations to rectify. Although I'm partly W.African I always say that I'm originally from North-West Africa (relating ot history.)
As for Jordan the Jordan River always existed by the same name but the rest of the Land was the bulk of Palestine. There are many of My Jordanian friends whom, when asked about their origins say I'm Jordanian but am from Palestine originally. When they say this I have to admit that I can relate to what they mean, they long for their homeland which hadn't such complications as are now present within such parts.
So I would day that Madonna and Citizen are correct and thumbs up for highlighting the point.
If KA truely considers welcoming all Palestinians within Jordan due to the aforesaid then may Allah s.w.t truely bless him for this fact alone. In such case he would be continuing what his father before him did, when he made the same offer to Palestinians. If so were very proud of you KA!
madonna23 said:
You're right Citizen --- but then, most of the Middle EAstern countries were created by the West for political reasons. I think it is why there are so many problems today in the Middle EAst and also in AFrica where the West just divided up the countries for their own purposes - not caring to notice what people lived there and if the land they were carving out was really one country.
