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Its Beauty Defies Age and Invaders.. Jaffa, the Mermaid of the Palestinian Land Tahsin Yaqin

If Palestine boasts of a metropolis some day, that will be Jaffa, the city that rivals Jerusalem in civilization and culture, and was the first city in Palestine before the 1948 Nakba. We can just look at Jaffa’s recent history to explore its modern revival which the invaders have undermined. Jaffa, the coastal city with its impressive green hill, is almost always synonymous with beauty; its name is derived from the Canaanite word “Yaffi”, meaning ”the exceptionally beautiful”