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Submitted by Carmen (United States), Aug 9, 2020 at 15:16

The Nation - Volume 165 - Page 365 - 1947
The conflicting ambitions of the Mufti and the Trans. jordan-Iraqi dynasty are the major but not the only elements in the political ... disturbances in 1936-39, which coincided with successive poor crops in the Hauran province in southern Syria.
https://books.google.com/books?id=TtVNAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22southern+syria%23

June 1, 1956
Daily News from New York, New York ยท 45
Syria Demands: Talk On Pre-lsrael Basis
By PETER WALLENBERG
Syria demanded in the UN Security Council yesterday that everything the United Nations had done in the Palestine question,... the political aspects of the Palestine dispute. Shukairy tore into the British resolution that is backed by the U. S. and France and which would empower Hammarskjold to continue bis efforts toward "a peaceful settlement on a mutually acceptable basis." "The establishment of Israel, its membership in the UN and all other resolutions will have to be revoked," Shukairy said. "Then, and only then," he added, "the United Nations can look forward to a solution on a mutually acceptable basis." Israel's envoy, Abba Eban, take ever Israel and quoted Shukairy's word that Israel was just a part of southern Syria.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/455603792/

Vochenblatt - Jun 7, 1956, p.1
Ahmed Shukairy of Syria the most vehement in his opposition to sections in the British resolution, Palestine as "nothing but the southern part of Syria" and part..
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2316&dat=19560607&id=Ucs0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z98FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2822,4759887

The Mufti and the Fuehrer: The Rise and Fall of Haj Amin El-Husseini - Page 18 - Joseph B. Schechtman - 1965
... and began to seek the limelight of public life , writing for the local Arab paper Suriyah al - Janubiyah ( Southern Syria ) and addressing gatherings of Arab nationalists . In both capacities he displayed https://books.google.com/books?id=TZZtAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Janubiyah

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