Talk:Amka

message: The official spelling used by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics does not use an apostrophe. - Gilgamesh 06:28, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved it as requested. Please compare the move of 'Afula. Bishonen | talk 17:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: spelling

message: Any objections? Tiamut 00:09, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Two choices: 
The Amka article is really just a slightly larger version of the Amqa article, so a merger could be a good idea. However, it is an independent Israeli locality today and merging it could be negatively received by other users especially by WikiProject Israel. In the case of the latter choice, we can recommend that the project expand the Amka article and until then we can expand the Amqa one. --Al Ameer son 01:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

text: I have no problem with putting off a merger if people are committed to expanding the respective articles. Happy editing! Tiamut 01:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Amqa]] and [[Amka]] need to be merged

message: Since both these article are about the same location, they should be merged. Does this occur elsewhere on wikipedia, that the same location has two articles? Al Quds redirects to Jerusalem. Wikipedia is not a memorial!? Chesdovi (talk) 13:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, unless you think people like Benny  Morris are doing "memorials" (!) ...this isn´t a "memorial. It is called: history. And I wonder where you have been, if you have not noticed that the same location can have had different communities over time? Regards, Huldra (talk) 15:18, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I could understand if this village was indeed history, if it was a abandoned ruin. But it is not. It is currently being lived in. That's why I can't understand why there are two separate articles! One article is a memorial to its previous community. This can be better named Arab community of Amqa, similar to Przedecz (Jewish community) - a history of the towns population. This article is about a location. Why is there a second one, Amka, about the same place?! Chesdovi (talk) 19:11, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Amka]] 

message: Why were the Druze spared the ethnic cleansing process? Chesdovi (talk) 13:51, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Standard procedure. Druze and Arab Christians were normally not evicted. (There were exceptions: e.g. The IDF did not want Arabs along the Lebanese border ..so all Arab villagers (like Christian villages of   Kafr Bir'im and Iqrit)  were cleansed. Eh, and Chesdovi: why not, like, read a little bit about the events in 1948 before you start editing these articles?? Just a suggestion ;-P   Regards, Huldra (talk) 15:31, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why was it standard. What distinguished the Muslims from the rest? Chesdovi (talk) 19:04, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's all baseless lies. They fled out of their own free will, no one forced them to. TFighterPilot (talk) 13:59, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Gotta agree with Tfighter here. This whole "expulsion" crap is a myth. 65.92.161.76 (talk) 01:56, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnical cleansing in Amqa 

message: Galillee II, p. 23, Google translation: "Planted with fig and olive trees, they are separated by hedges of cactus and giant cover the slopes of an isolated hill, crowned by the village of name, whose population is entirely Muslim. It contains many cisterns dug into the rock. We also see the location an ancient building which is said to have been a church, that seems to confirm its direction from west to east. Several columns and a large number of beautiful stone have been extracted from it. A'mka reproduces exactly the name of a city mentioned in the Bible as the limits of the tribe of Asher, and called in Hebrew Beth E'mek or Beth ha-E'mek, in Greek ..., in Latin Bethemec." Zerotalk 14:15, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guerin 

message: Apparently a few hundred expelled villagers remained in Israel.  Needs a good source.  Zerotalk 14:30, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  present absentees 

message: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/219
The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948
Book: The War for Palestine Rewriting the History of 1948 edited by Eugene Rogan, Avi Shlaim Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN: 9780521794765; 249pp.
Introduction
((Copyright violation deleted. Zerotalk 10:08, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  May I Please Edit this Article With Alternative Reliable Source? 

message: Whoever is inserting the book of Rogan apparently has not actually looked at it.  For a start, the part of the book that mentions the Arab village was not written by Eugene Rogan but by Leila Parsons.  More importantly, the text entirely agrees with the statement that is being moved (except that it fails to mention land ownership).  It does not mention the post-1948 village at all. The only thing that Parsons disagrees with is a 1987 error of Morris that the villagers were Druze, which Morris has long since corrected. So there is no case for including it here.  Zerotalk 23:20, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book of Rogan 

message: As far as I can, Morris (pages xx and 376) spells both the before-village and the after-village as "Amqa".  I don't see what this dispute is about. Zerotalk 12:11, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: opsh, you are right, actually. The problem is that on wikipedia the "new" village has an article named called Amka -if we write Amqa it is directed to this article. Huldra (talk) 12:59, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

text: Amqa should be merged into Amka. Same as Akka/Acre/Acco/Akko or Tabriya/Tiberias or Jish/Gush-Halav.Greyshark09 (talk) 19:54, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't object to that, especially as the new location has very little information. Zerotalk 23:08, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm making it an official merging proposal.Greyshark09 (talk) 16:47, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amqa/Amka 

message: Seems Amqa featured in wars between the Hittites and the Egyptians in the 14th century BC.  But sorting it all out seems hard.  Cambridge Ancient History series.  Zerotalk 23:29, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Older history 

message: Please share your opinion whether Keep or Merge regarding this article, whether to merge it ('Amqa') into the previously created article of Amka. Per discussion above, it is certain we are speaking of different prenounsation of the same place name in the Galilee - Amka/Amqa/Amca, the same as Acre/Acco/Akko; Tverya/Tiberias/Tabariyya and other, who all are described within the scope of one single article, covering all different time periods.Greyshark09 (talk) 16:59, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: I have completed the merge, the article now needs citation improvement.Greyshark09 (talk) 21:06, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge procedure 

message: I don't understand why ZERO is reverting my edits referring to ethnic cleansing. Why else would Jews be depopulating Palestinian villages? What other point would there be to it other than ethnic cleansing?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.243.149 (talk) 07:31, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Trolls not welcome.  Zerotalk 10:29, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic Cleansing