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Re: Conflict in the Middle East
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:00:06 GMT
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> writes:
> Forgive my ignorance, but I want to be clear on something. Is
> Jenin a camp, a town, a camp-within-a-town, a town-within-a-camp,
> or something else?
It's sort of both. Jenin was originally a town. The refugee camp was
built next to the town decades ago, and has slowly evolved into a town
itself.
According to my understandment of the recent events, it was the
refugee camp (which is more like a town) which was destroyed, while
the old town next to was more or less spared.
Fredrik
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| (...) camp, a town, a camp-within-a-town, a town-within-a-camp, or something else? I ask because I've heard it referred to alternatively as any of the above, so I'm unclear of what sort of area is at stake. That doesn't in any way reduce the loss (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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