August 30, 2011: A report in a Saudi paper stated Jordan reiterated its opposition to the plan, and that Jordan’s King Abdullah II has communicated his stance to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas several times to no avail, as Abbas continues to ignore Abdullah’s stance on the matter, much to the latter’s frustration.

While the impression is that the Arab world supports the Palestinian Authority’s plan to declare an independent Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and seek UN recognition of it, the truth is that numerous Arab countries oppose it. 

The most vocal Arab country opposing the PA’s “September plan” has been Jordan, which threatened to vote against approving the PA state when the UN General Assembly votes on the matter.

Jordan contends that if the UN approves the establishment of a PA state before negotiations with Israel are complete, the descendants of British Mandate Arabs who fled Israel when the state was re-established in 1948 will lose any claim they have to return to their family’s previous homes, or receive compensation. Israel will refuse to negotiate on their status, claiming the PA broke the Oslo agreements, and that Israel is not under any obligation to negotiate the issue any further with the PA, Abdullah was quoted as telling Abbas in the report.

Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated that Jordan was not the only Arab country opposed to the PA’s plan. “In the coming weeks I am sure we will hear about other leaders criticizing the PA,” he stated. “The only way to move forward is for both sides to return to the negotiating table.”

A PA state of Palestinian Arabs may also activate the plot of “Black Setmember and demise the Hashemite Kingdom and Saudi arabia.

August 30, 2011: Sheikh Abu Hader Jaabari, the Mukhtar of Hevron, stated in an interview with INR that Israel made a bad mistake when it chose dialogue with the foreign entity of the PLO instead of local tribal leadership.

He stated he misses the days that preceded the Oslo Accords. Speaking emotionally and with conviction, Jaabari stated that there is no way of establishing another “Palestinian” state.

Firstly, he stated, Islam forbids Arab leaders from ceding any part of the land, which is considered holy. Therefore, any kind of land compromise is not valid from a religious viewpoint. Secondly, he stated, Israel is present everywhere on the land, there are checkpoints everywhere and there is no way to create an independent Arab country, because there is not enough land to create it on.

“I wish we had remained in the pre-Oslo period,” Jaabari stated. “The situation was much better, at least economically. Today we have over 40% unemployment. Most of the factories have closed down, and drug trafficking within the populace has grown. People find themselves in a vacuum; they look for their path.”

“We are basically a conservative nation. Now there is no conservatism, no anything.” The solution, he stated, is not to divide the land between Jews and Arabs but to establish a single country in which Jews and Arabs will have equal rights.

Regarding the Jewish fear that Arabs would eventually gain a majority in such a country, he stated: “You have a fear of demography. But I think the Arabs are going down demographically and the Jews are only going up. Our women have begun to work and they are content with one or two children.”

Ayoub Kara floated the idea that Arabs would have full rights in Israel but would not be able to vote for the Knesset. Sheikh Jaabari stated he would agree to this arrangement as a temporary one, until trust was established between Jews and Arabs.

Kara suggested that Palestinians are in effect Jordanians, and do not need an additional state. Jaabari agreed that most Jordanians are Palestinians and that many of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria are Jordanian citizens. However, he stated that once Jordan announced its disengagement from Judea and Samaria in 1988, the option of “Jordan as Palestine” became difficult to implement.

Perhaps a confederation of some sort with Jordan or Israel is still possible, he stated, but this too is difficult after the Oslo process, because “everyone wants to be a part of the leadership and if there is no state there is no leadership.”

In any case, he stated, an independent Palestinian state is not an option.The interview with Jaabari was conducted at his home, in the presence of Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara.

Pre-Islamic Arabia (Jahiliyyah) is the history of Arab people who lived in the Arabian Plate before the rise of Islam in the 630s. The study of Pre-Islamic Arabia is important to Islamic studies as it provides the context for the development of Islam.

The scientific studies of Pre-Islamic Arabs starts with the Arabists of the early 19th century when they managed to decipher epigraphic Old South Arabian (10th century BC), Ancient North Arabian (6th century BC) and other writings.

Nabataean trade routes in Pre-Islamic era. Trade Caravans travelled by land and depending on the trade winds also by sea. The map above demonstrates the main land routes, with key land markets and sea ports

Pre-Islamic Arabia, hence it is no longer limited to the written traditions which are not local due to the lack of surviving Arab historians accounts of that era, therefore it is compensated by existing material consisting of primarily written sources from other traditions (such as Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, etc.).

From the 3rd century CE, Arabian history becomes more tangible with the rise of the Himyarite Kingdom, and with the appearance of the Qahtanites in the Levant and the gradual assimilation of the Nabataeans by the Qahtanites in the early centuries CE, a pattern of expansion exceeded in the explosive Muslim conquests of the 7th century.

Sources of history include archaeological evidence,, foreign accounts and oral traditions later recorded by Islamic scholars especially pre-Islamic Poems and Hadiths plus a number of ancient Arab documents that survived to the medieval times and portions of them were cited or recorded.

Archaeological exploration in the Arabian Peninsula has been sparse but fruitful, many ancient sites were identified by modern excavations.

Early Semitic migrations: The earliest known events in Arabian history are migrations from the peninsula into neighbouring areas. In the 3rd millennium BCE, Semitic-speaking peoples migrated from the Arabian Peninsula into Mesopotamia, brought down Sumer, and eventually established the semitic Akkadian Empire under Sargon of Akkad (c. 2300 BCE).

The East Semitic group established itself at Ebla. The Amorites were Northwest Semitic speakers who left Arabia in the late 3rd millennium BCE and settled along the Levant. Some of these migrants established societies that evolved into the Aramaeans and Canaanites of later times.

Pre-Historic to Iron Age:

Ubaid period (5300 BC)-could have originated in eastern Arabia
Umm an-Nar Culture (2600-2000 BC)
Sabr culture (2000 BC)
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