whereby the Indians were divided among the colonists. In theory the main objective of the laws was that the Indians might thereby be Christianized and civilized, but in fact its principal feature was that they were made to serve as slaves in the fields and mines. ...
“Everywhere in the New World we find songs that were popular in the days when the colonists set sail from their homelands. Thus American song is, in one aspect, a museum of musical antiques from many lands.” (Alan Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America in the English language, p.xv...
The area remains under military occupation and has been colonised by Israeli settlers who have established 33 settlements inhabited by around 18000 colonists. Afiq was set up soon after the occupation of the Syrian Golan, close to the remains of the Syrian city of Fiq, whose residents had been...