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The article discusses political conditions in Palestine as of 2012, with a focus on the region's importance to the Arab culture and the religion of Islam. Topics include the history of Palestine in the twentieth century; the social effects of the Intifada revolt which began in 1987; and the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict between Muslims and Jews.

This article discusses the general relationship that exists between the geographic space in which a population event or other source of culturally important dynamics occurs and the ability of historians to accurately discern the exact correlation and meaning that existed at the time between the geographic and social variables. Specifically, an examination is done of the religious beliefs of the inhabitants of the Lys Valley in the area between the towns of Aire and Comines in Belgium during the Middle Ages.