American activist remembered; murdered by Israelis.

moon2012 said:
Although I admire and respect the Amish, bhaktajan , that is not an accurate comparison. The Palestinians are the indigenous people of Palestine who have been invaded and exploited by foreigners
with the assistance of morally weak Western governments.
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And yet, you are unable to say when the word "Palestine or Palestinian" came into existence.

:facepalm:
 
Guille said:
Point taken on Moon, you'd think such a champion of the Palestinians might know a little bit about them.

Doesn't matter though as far as the big picture.
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He has taken the persona of the Palestinian population though and that is one of being a victim. :palm:
 
The British revived the name Palestine after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

The name Palestine refers to a region of the eastern Mediterranean coast from the sea to the Jordan valley and from the southern Negev desert to the Galilee lake region in the north. The word itself derives from "Plesheth", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". Plesheth, (root palash) was a general term meaning rolling or migratory. This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea. The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs.

The Philistines reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts.

From the fifth century BC, following the historian Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean "the Philistine Syria" using the Greek language form of the name. In AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and so renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit. The name "Provincia Syria Palaestina" was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized "Palestine" is derived.

This remained the situation until the end of the fourth century, when in the wake of a general imperial reorganization Palestine became three Palestines: First, Second, and Third. This configuration is believed to have persisted into the seventh century, the time of the Persian and Muslim conquests.

The Christian Crusaders employed the word Palestine to refer to the general region of the "three Palestines." After the fall of the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official designation. The name, however, continued to be used informally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan River. The Ottoman Turks, who were non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years (1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, the Palestine region was attached administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul. The name Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and applied to the territory in this region that was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine.

The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab
pronunciation of the Roman "Palaestina".

The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity. [In an article by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, November 25, 1995]
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http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/31327
 
moon2012 said:
Referencing Daniel Pipes and the Jerusalem post are hallmarks of the scoundrel.
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Now you know how we feel when you post crap from something like the Electronic Intafada. Of course it would be totally beyond you to actually point out what is wrong with that article apart from it being written by a Jew!
 
Milagro said:
Now you know how we feel when you post crap from something like the Electronic Intafada. Of course it would be totally beyond you to actually point out what is wrong with that article apart from it being written by a Jew!
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It's disgraceful that you should hold that against it- crap though it is.
 
moon2012 said:
It's disgraceful that you should hold that against it- crap though it is.
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As predicted, Moonbat is incapable of writing a critique. Bullshit and flimflam is all he/she has got, certainly doesn't take much to rattle its cage.

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