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Sa·mar·i·tan
/ səˈmaritn; -ˈme(ə)r-/
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n.
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(usu. good Samaritan)
a charitable or helpful person (with reference to Luke 10:33).
2.
a member of a people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times, or of the modern community in the region of Nablus claiming descent from them, adhering to a form of Judaism accepting only its own ancient version of the Pentateuch as Scripture.
3.
the dialect of Aramaic formerly spoken in Samaria.
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adj.
of or relating to Samaria or the Samaritans.
DERIVATIVES:
Sa·mar·i·tan·ism
/ -ˌizəm/ n.
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Nablus Tests Mideast Peace Efforts
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...remove its tight ring of roadblocks choking Nablus, raising questions about the formula...Abbas on down, say they raise the fate of Nablus in every meeting, asking their Israeli...credibility if the 170,000 residents of Nablus don't see improvements soon. In recent...
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 "The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)")
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'The Forgotten Fighter': Nablus's Will to Live.
Newspaper article from: The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA); 9/15/2008; 700+ words
; ...really was about and meant, I had to go to Nablus. Most of them also told me that Nablus was their favourite city. After spending 5...experienced) the first thing you see on arriving in Nablus is its most famous checkpoint: Huwara. Huwara...
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West Bank City of Nablus Suffers from Lawlessness
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 11/7/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...NPR) 11-07-2006 West Bank City of Nablus Suffers from Lawlessness Host: RENEE...better. In the area's largest city, Nablus, gunmen have virtually taken over the...seems unable to respond. The mayor of Nablus blames Israel for this grim situation...
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Analysis: Israeli troops welcomed by many in Nablus as deterrent to gang activity
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 9/15/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Analysis: Israeli troops welcomed by many in Nablus as deterrent to gang activity Host: BOB...EDWARDS, host: The West Bank city of Nablus has been hard-hit in the last three...frequent raids into the city. Last year, Nablus residents spent five months under an Israeli...
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Counting The Dead In Nablus; Resistance Is Seen As Matter of History
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the rubble of Nasser Street, the men of Nablus's Old City exchanged traditional kisses...without loud laments or curses on high, for Nablus is a city without tears. It has fought...were boys," Hinno said. "Fighting for Nablus, and especially for the Old City, it...
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Analysis: West Bank city of Nablus
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 1/9/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...09-2004 Analysis: West Bank city of Nablus Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time: 11:00 AM...extended operations in the West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinians in the largest West Bank...soldiers with abusing Palestinians at a Nablus checkpoint. NPR's Peter Kenyon visited...
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Restive Nablus challenges Fatah's Abbas.(WORLD)(Mahmoud Abbas)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 11/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Nablus, West Bank -- Over the course of the...Authority (PA) freshly deployed around Nablus, the city has become a testing ground...armed militants at checkpoints around Nablus, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
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Chaotic Nablus: Testing Ground for Abbas
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/25/2007; 700+ words
; NABLUS, West Bank - The Palestinian president...campaign to disarm hundreds of militants in Nablus has had mixed results. A former fighter...weapons and ammunition. Abbas picked unruly Nablus, the West Bank's second-largest city...
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Israeli Forces Search Nablus
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 [image omitted] NABLUS, West Bank (AP) _ Israeli troops poured into the West Bank city of Nablus and a neighboring refugee camp on Friday...violence. The Israeli troops entered Nablus in about 40 tanks and armored personnel...
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Nablus Controlled by Israeli Troops
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/2/2002; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 [image omitted] NABLUS, West Bank (AP) _ The Israeli army...searches Friday as troops took control of Nablus, a city Israel called the main factory...able to discern is that its hub is in Nablus, said Israeli government spokesman Dore...
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Nablus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
NABLUS the largest west bank city. Nablus is 30 miles north of Jerusalem in a valley between Mount Ebal...Israel. It was rebuilt and renamed Neapolis (from which the name Nablus derives) by the Roman emperor Vespasian, suffered damage in...
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Jabal Nablus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
JABAL NABLUS Group of low mountains in the Nablus region. Located about 30 miles (48.3 km) north of Jerusalem, Jabal Nablus forms the northern edge of the Central Highlands that extend south to Hebron (Arabic: al-Khalil). The region...
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Tuqan Family
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...FAMILY Prominent Palestinian family from Nablus. Descended from an ancient Arabian tribe, the Tuqans settled in Nablus during the twelfth century. Through...palace as well as a number of villas in Nablus. They shared the post of governor with...
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Women and Family Affairs Center
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...prominent educated women, mainly from Nablus city. The center was established as a...formally separated the two centers and the Nablus center became the Women and Family Affairs...and its main mandate is in the city of Nablus. It has no relations with Israelis...
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Samaritans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...numbering about 500 who currently reside in Nablus, on the west bank of the Jordan River...see themselves as a distinct people. In Nablus, Samaritans are culturally similar to...temple on Mount Gerizim, overlooking Nablus. The temple was destroyed in 128 b...
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