So their national ties to the land in the north, in the south, the center is Jerusalem and its surroundings, Bethlehem is of no immediate interest to Islam.

所以他们与这片土地的联系,无论是北部，还是南部，都是国家层面的，中央的是耶路撒冷和周边，比如伯利恒，与伊斯兰教没有直接联系。

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Or, if you take England,for example, people came to care in very major ways what people in Manchester thought because Manchester becomes the capital essentially of the north and the economic center of production.

或者,拿英格兰举例,曼彻斯特人的意志具有很大影响力,因为那里对于北部的重要性堪比首都,并且是工业经济中心

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