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[James A. Landau]

A quickie search on Google Books turns up at least three different meanings for "Arab Triangle"

https://books.google.com/books?id=ua8YAAAAIAAJ&q=%22arab+triangle%22&dq=%22arab+triangle%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi97MuO-tzjAhXipVkKHRVrAmYQ6AEIQTAG

December 1942 "The British-Jewish-Arab triangle in Palestine"

https://books.google.com/books?id=sXg6AQAAMAAJ&q=%22arab+triangle%22&dq=%22arab+triangle%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi97MuO-tzjAhXipVkKHRVrAmYQ6AEIKjAA

1919 (quoted in 1922) "the great Arab triangle, of which Mecca..."

https://books.google.com/books?id=XdU4AAAAIAAJ&q=%22arab+triangle%22&dq=%22arab+triangle%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjU28qv_NzjAhUnx1kKHT5wBS0Q6AEIRzAH

several references during or soon after the 1948 war, with the specific meaning of the cities of Nablus, Jenin, and Tulkarm in what is now called the "West Bank"

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Federal Triangle in Washington DC (area bounded by 15th Street, Constitution Avenue, and Pennsylvania Avenue)

Google Books has a 1920 citation 
https://books.google.com/books?id=XdU4AAAAIAAJ&q=%22arab+triangle%22&dq=%22arab+triangle%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjU28qv_NzjAhUnx1kKHT5wBS0Q6AEIRzAH

- Jim Landau



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