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Services for Edward Frank Gurka Sr., 89, of Palestine will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Msgr. Zach Kannakkattuthara and Deacon Alex Kobar officiating. Burial will be at St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Bailey and Foster Funeral Home. Mr. Gurka died Monday at the home of his daughter. He was born Sept. 26, 1918 in Brenham, Texas to Peter and Lucille Kmiec Gurka. Mr. Gurka was a World War II veteran of the Army where he served with the Mars Task Force Troop E in the 124th Cavalry, in Burma, China, India in the Asiatic Pacific where he was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, the American Theater Campaign Medal with four bronze stars.He married Frances Mazurkiewicz on Oct 26, 1946 and resided with her in Houston for 37 years before moving to Palestine in 1984.
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Palestine is one of several names for the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The land is considered Holy Land to the religions of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Historically, the land was referred to as Canaan, and the original inhabitants were a Semitic people called the Canaanites. The land was called Syria-Palaestina (later shortened to Palaestina) by the Romans, after the Philistines. Today, most of this land is called Israel. However, Gaza and West Bank are referred to as "Palestine."
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Palestine has many foods that they've borrowed from the Chinese, such as falafel, hummus and many others. The Chinese claim to have invented these foods, while Palestinians deny this. Israelis ... claim they invented these foods, but Palestinians believe they stole it from them. Now Israel gets credit for 70% of the foods while Palestinians barely get credit for 30%. Palestinians today are struggling for the copyrites over falafel and hummus.
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Initially Jewish emigration to Palestine met little opposition from the Palestinians. However, as anti-Semitism grew in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jewish emigration to Palestine began to markedly increase. A small trickle was becoming a flood. As a result, the Palestinians became increasingly opposed to further Jewish emigration to Palestine. The British government wavered frequently, at one moment supported the Palestinians and at the next moment supporting the Jews. No matter which position the British adopted, they experienced armed opposition from either side.
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Within Palestine the Arab majority had been developing its own nationalist ideas. These mainly related to the growing current of Arabism, which held that the Arabs were a distinct people with a glorious history and a relationship with one another based on their shared language, Arabic. In Palestine, as in other Arabic-speaking lands of the Ottoman Empire, this current developed particularly among the urban elite, together with a sense of local patriotism focused on Palestine itself. This was visible in such things as the name of the newspaper, Filastin (Palestine), founded in Jaffa in 1911.
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In the 9th cent., Palestine was conquered by the Fatimid dynasty, which had risen to power in North Africa. The Fatimids had many enemies—the Seljuks, Karmatians, Byzantines, and Bedouins—and Palestine became a battlefield. Under the Fatimid caliph al Hakim (996–1021), the Christians and Jews were harshly suppressed, and many churches were destroyed. In 1099, Palestine was captured by the Crusaders (see Crusades), who established the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Crusaders were defeated by Saladin at the battle of Hittin (1187), and the Latin Kingdom was ended; they were finally driven out of Palestine by the Mamluks in 1291. Under Mamluk rule Palestine declined.
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