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which Israel captured in 1967, and handed back to Syria in 1973 - was in Herzl's vision a prosperous way station on a railway extending much further eastwards, evidently controlled by "The New
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the main written language. European customs are reproduced, such as going to the opera and enjoying the theatre. While
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