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Welcome to my lifelong personal project. I began collecting the data in this web site, Passport Palestine, in 1985 as a personal project under the title "Biladi: The Palestine Database." At that time, BILADI was a computer softwearware program, the first of its kind, which allowed users to search and compile data on Palestinian History. The most popuar database was the Village Database. Over the past two decades I have been slowly collecting data on each village and entering it into the database. I try to update this database often with new information and now links, photos and videos. Here, you will find everything you need to know about Palestine, and more importantly, its people. This site maintains the most complete list of Palestinian cities, towns and villages with detailed information, when available, on each.
One of my next projects is to build a unique "Family Database" where you will be able to record a brief history of your family and link them to one of Palestine's cities, towns or villages.
What will you find here? A list of every Palestinian village that ever existed as well as information about its status, as best to my abilities. (The Database is constantly updated.) This list also includes all pre-1948 cities, villages and towns, and all Jewish settlements including all known Moshavs (Moshav) and Kibuttzim (Kibbutz). In many cases, former Arab villages were destroyed by Israel and new Jewish settlements were built in their place. In many cases, what the new State of Israel did was to commit genocide through the intentional destruction of Christian and Muslim civilian existence, mainly through expulsion but in some cases through outright murder (as in the case of actions of notorious Jewish terrorists Ariel Sharon, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir).
WHAT IS IN THIS DATABASE PROJECT
Under the Village Database, you will find a complete list of villages including original name, original Palestine Mandate District, Carta Map coordinates, and Longitude and Latitude, and information on the status followed by some history of the village.
The Database is further broken down into a list of the more than 400 Arab villages destroyed by Israel in 1948, as well as villages sorted by District. (About 200 villages are not sorted in those district lists which can be found using the pre-1948 Palestine Map.
I also have transcribed historical documents on Palestine's History that are listed in the Library Database. And, I am building a photographic and video collection of materials on Palestine.
I hope you find this information educational.
We Palestinians do exist. We have a history that we will never forget. And we have rights that must be recognized in a future resolution of the conflict.
(All data on this site (C) Copyright Ray Hanania Enterprises Ltd, PO Box 2127, Orland Park, IL., 60462. No part of this site may be reproduced, copied or redistributed without the expressed written permission of Ray Hanania Enterprises Ltd. The updated Database of cities is available for purchase in CSV format. Contact Ray Hanania at rayhanania@comcast.net)
Available databases
Cities, towns & villages
Tourism
Cemetery
Hall of Fame
History
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News media
Government
Library
Palestine Banks
Palestine Post Office
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