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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.

If you're going to dispute the neutrality of an article, surely you should also put something in the Talk page about what you think is not NPOV, right?

Fair point. My objection is to the history section, on several counts:

• its astonishing failure to mention or even allude to its 1400 years of Islamic history.
• the demographically absurd ordering of the populations (when even now Jews remain a minority in most of Galilee) in:

During the 20th century, the Galilee was inhabited by Haredi Jews ("Ke'ilot Kodesh", mainly in Safed), Zionist settlers, Arabs, Druzes and other minorities such Cherksians.

• the extraordinarily POV description of Israel's brutal war against Lebanon.

- Mustafaa 21:46, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Where is the source for this seemingly dubious statement? It is called Galil by Jews. It's easy to disprove, but is it really trying to say that most Hebrew speaking Jews pronounce it Galil? Or is this how hagalil is pronounced? -Wikibob | Talk 13:56, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)

Good point. - Mustafaa 23:32, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

We pronounce it "Galil". you may have heared "haGalil" because "ha" is like "the" in English (meaning hagalil = the Galil).

Contents 1 Galil in Hebrew means "center" 2 Galil in Hebrew means a lot of things... 3 Map 4 The Galilee in 2000-2006

[edit] Galil in Hebrew means "center"

When you say Galil you mean "the center" and not "circuit". It is the name of the area from the time of Moses. Also - "the brutal war against lebanon....."... please spare us the ugly politics and munipulations. This war was due to a never ending bombings from Lebanon toward the Galilee. We here in the Galilee live a very modest and quite life - arabs and jews have very good relationships. Try to avoid to ruin that.

[edit] Galil in Hebrew means a lot of things...

Excuse me for intruding... I will not argue about your preference for the meaning 'center', but in my Biblical Hebrew lexicon (Brown, Driver & Briggs) the word can mean 'turning', 'folding', 'revolving', 'cylinder', 'rod', 'circuit', or - possibly the most relevant here historically - 'district'. Isaiah 8:23 refers to this region as גְּלִיל - הַגּוׁיִם Galîl Haggoyim 'the District of the Nations' because in Isaiah's time (as in various others) a mixture of nationalities were known to live there. DThrax 04:15, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map

Can we please have a map for this article? Badagnani 22:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Galilee in 2000-2006

I've just expanded the article with some corrections plus new (current) material, based on being a resident of the Western Galilee since 1984 and having experienced the current warfare firsthand (as a civilian) during the second half of July and from interim locations south of the Galilee since then. My material comes from reportage in the broadcast and electronic media and is as NPOV as I could manage. I've written this notation here on the article's Talk page in lieu of being able to provide citations. -- Deborahjay 18:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)