But more importantly, though, in the history of that region, it's served, it's had a real strategic function, and that is, it is the means by which hostile armies on the coastal plain find their way, get up into the mountains and threaten those living in the mountains.
しかしそれ以上に この地域は歴史的に 戦略上重要な拠点でした つまり 敵愾心に満ちた軍隊が 海岸平野から この地を通って 山脈に入り込めば イスラエルの民には脅威でした