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The word 'Sham' is not only used for Damascus, for it
also means 'left' and has long been used to refer to those
countries to the left of the Hijaz (where the cities of Makka
and Madina stand). Many leaders have been killed in the
region, among them former Syrian prime ministers Salah
al-Deen Beetar (1920), Droubi Pasha (1921), and Muhsin al-
Barazi (1949), King Abdullah of Jordan (1951), and
Lebanese Phalange leader Bashir Gemayel (1982).

• The people of Sham will take prisoner the tribes of Egypt...
(Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi ‘Alamat al-
Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 49)
Today, the states in the region in question include
Israel. That is why the hadith could be pointing to the war
between the State of Israel and Egypt, and the invasion of
Egyptian territory.

On October 26, 1956, Israel attacked Egypt and began to occupy the
Sinai Peninsula. The fighting ended shortly afterwards following in-
tervention by the United Nations.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
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