Palestinians, Why Statehood Now?

[JStone]

I wish someone would tackle this question.

Even though the people who now call themselves Palestinians have lived there forever (with migrations and influx of new people), a Palestinian identity really only goes back to the 19th Century (if not just the turn of the 20th Century). Before that, they were Arab, before that Muslim, before that a mixture of Jews, Christians and other subjects of the Byzantines. It's the same story with Syria (although Syria was also an administrative region to the Ottomans). It's the same story with many European nations (Bosnia being the first example to come into my head).

What were the Palestinians before they began calling themselves Palestinians, when they weren't Palestinians? That would be Arab living in Arabia

the Jews have been Jews for nearly 3000 years. The Palestinians have an identity crisis?

 

[P F Tinmore]

What were the Palestinians before they began calling themselves Palestinians,

It doesn't matter.

A rose by any other name...

 

[JStone]

What were the Palestinians before they began calling themselves Palestinians,

It doesn't matter.

A rose by any other name...

Why didn't so-called Palestinians who weren't Palestinians before they were Palestinians ever claim their land in thousands of years?

The Jews claimed their land 3000 years ago.

And, since there is no letter p in Arabic, why do so-called Palestiniains, who are Arabic, call themselves by a name invented by the British whose name begins with a letter p not even in their own alphabet?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Drivel.

 

[JStone]

Drivel.

Why didn't Fakestinians establish a state since the beginning of time?

 

[High_Gravity]

What were the Palestinians before they began calling themselves Palestinians,

It doesn't matter.

A rose by any other name...

Why didn't so-called Palestinians who weren't Palestinians before they were Palestinians ever claim their land in thousands of years?

The Jews claimed their land 3000 years ago.

And, since there is no letter p in Arabic, why do so-called Palestiniains, who are Arabic, call themselves by a name invented by the British whose name begins with a letter p not even in their own alphabet?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJjm5K07V0]Who are the Palestinians? - YouTube[/ame]

Since there is no P in the Arabic language shouldn't they be called Falestinian or Filistini?

 

[JStone]

It doesn't matter.

A rose by any other name...

Why didn't so-called Palestinians who weren't Palestinians before they were Palestinians ever claim their land in thousands of years?

The Jews claimed their land 3000 years ago.

And, since there is no letter p in Arabic, why do so-called Palestiniains, who are Arabic, call themselves by a name invented by the British whose name begins with a letter p not even in their own alphabet?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJjm5K07V0]Who are the Palestinians? - YouTube[/ame]

Since there is no P in the Arabic language shouldn't they be called Falestinian or Filistini?

Fakestinians

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca48ocpFBiE&NR=1]What the Palestinians do not want Jews to know - YouTube[/ame]

 

[P F Tinmore]

It doesn't matter.

A rose by any other name...

Why didn't so-called Palestinians who weren't Palestinians before they were Palestinians ever claim their land in thousands of years?

The Jews claimed their land 3000 years ago.

And, since there is no letter p in Arabic, why do so-called Palestiniains, who are Arabic, call themselves by a name invented by the British whose name begins with a letter p not even in their own alphabet?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJjm5K07V0]Who are the Palestinians? - YouTube[/ame]

Since there is no P in the Arabic language shouldn't they be called Falestinian or Filistini?

They do. Palestine is the English translation.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5jqY-NizQI]Filistine - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JStone]

Why didn't so-called Palestinians who weren't Palestinians before they were Palestinians ever claim their land in thousands of years?

The Jews claimed their land 3000 years ago.

And, since there is no letter p in Arabic, why do so-called Palestiniains, who are Arabic, call themselves by a name invented by the British whose name begins with a letter p not even in their own alphabet?
Who are the Palestinians? - YouTube

Since there is no P in the Arabic language shouldn't they be called Falestinian or Filistini?

They do. Palestine is the English translation.

Why do Palestinians call themselves by a name invented by the British in the 20th century? Are Palestinians British?

Why haven't Palestinians claimed a state since the beginning of time when every other Near East and European civilization did so?

Fakestinians

Guy Milliere, Eminent Professor of History and Political Science, Sorbonne, Paris

No one had heard of a Palestinian people before the mid-1960s. They did not exist. Israel under the British Mandate until Israel' s Independence in 1948 was called Palestine. All Jews who were born there until i948 had the word « Palestine » stamped on their passports. The current Palestinians are those Arabs who, for a variety of reasons, decided to leave the land during the 1947 War of Independence, when five countries – Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq – attacked the 600,000 people in the fledgling state of Israel the day after its birth, hoping to kill it in the crib.
The War Against Israel Goes On- by Guy Millière | DRZZ.fr

 

[P F Tinmore]

Since there is no P in the Arabic language shouldn't they be called Falestinian or Filistini?

They do. Palestine is the English translation.

Why do Palestinians call themselves by a name invented by the British in the 20th century? Are Palestinians British?

Why haven't Palestinians claimed a state since the beginning of time when every other Near East and European civilization did so?

Fakestinians

Guy Milliere, Eminent Professor of History and Political Science, Sorbonne, Paris

No one had heard of a Palestinian people before the mid-1960s. They did not exist. Israel under the British Mandate until Israel' s Independence in 1948 was called Palestine. All Jews who were born there until i948 had the word « Palestine » stamped on their passports. The current Palestinians are those Arabs who, for a variety of reasons, decided to leave the land during the 1947 War of Independence, when five countries – Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq – attacked the 600,000 people in the fledgling state of Israel the day after its birth, hoping to kill it in the crib.
The War Against Israel Goes On- by Guy Millière | DRZZ.fr

Good question. Where was the "state of Israel" before 1948?

 

[JStone]

They do. Palestine is the English translation.

Why do Palestinians call themselves by a name invented by the British in the 20th century? Are Palestinians British?

Why haven't Palestinians claimed a state since the beginning of time when every other Near East and European civilization did so?

Fakestinians

Guy Milliere, Eminent Professor of History and Political Science, Sorbonne, Paris

No one had heard of a Palestinian people before the mid-1960s. They did not exist. Israel under the British Mandate until Israel' s Independence in 1948 was called Palestine. All Jews who were born there until i948 had the word « Palestine » stamped on their passports. The current Palestinians are those Arabs who, for a variety of reasons, decided to leave the land during the 1947 War of Independence, when five countries – Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq – attacked the 600,000 people in the fledgling state of Israel the day after its birth, hoping to kill it in the crib.
The War Against Israel Goes On- by Guy Millière | DRZZ.fr

Good question. Where was the "state of Israel" before 1948?

Why haven't Fakestinians declared a state since the beginning of time, dummy?

Eminent French Archaeologist and Near East historian Andre Lemaire, Directeur d'etudes at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, History and Philology Section of the Sorbonne, Specialist in West Semitic epigraphy

King David's reign represents a glorious achievement. Seizing the opportunity occasioned by the weakness of Assyria and Egypt, a strong and brilliant personality, joined the houses of Israel and Judah, made Jerusalem the capital of both and used this unfication as the basis of his dominion. With this favorable international situation, David created for a time one of the most important powers in the ancient Near East.

Under Kings David and Solomon, Israel was transformed from a small territory into a larger united kingdom with vassal states subject to it. As the monarchy assumed an international role, other powers to the ancient Near East, such as Phoenicia and Egypt, were required to give due regard to Israel.

 

[P F Tinmore]

The League of Nations created Palestine and defined its borders in 1922. There was no other state there at the time.

 

[High_Gravity]

The League of Nations created Palestine and defined its borders in 1922. There was no other state there at the time.

The League of Nations is now obsolete and has no authority, so what does that really mean?

 

[JStone]

The League of Nations created Palestine and defined its borders in 1922. There was no other state there at the time.

The League of Nations was a Western body that reestablished the Jewish National Home and "Palestine" is an English word invented by Europeans in the 20th century.

Why didn't Fakestinians ever declare their own state since the beginning of time?

 

[P F Tinmore]

The League of Nations created Palestine and defined its borders in 1922. There was no other state there at the time.

The League of Nations is now obsolete and has no authority, so what does that really mean?

Does that mean that all the other states in the region are no longer there?

 

[JStone]

The League of Nations created Palestine and defined its borders in 1922. There was no other state there at the time.

The League of Nations is now obsolete and has no authority, so what does that really mean?

Does that mean that all the other states in the region are no longer there?

Why haven't Fakestinians created their own state since the big bang?

 

[High_Gravity]

The League of Nations created Palestine and defined its borders in 1922. There was no other state there at the time.

The League of Nations is now obsolete and has no authority, so what does that really mean?

Does that mean that all the other states in the region are no longer there?

Did the League of Nations create every other state in the ME?

 

[P F Tinmore]

The League of Nations is now obsolete and has no authority, so what does that really mean?

Does that mean that all the other states in the region are no longer there?

Did the League of Nations create every other state in the ME?

Someone divvied up that old Ottoman property.

 

[JStone]

Does that mean that all the other states in the region are no longer there?

Did the League of Nations create every other state in the ME?

Someone divvied up that old Ottoman property.

Why didn't the Fakestinians claim their land during 400 years of Ottoman rule?

Why didn't the Fakestinians claim their land since the dinosaurs roamed?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Did the League of Nations create every other state in the ME?

Someone divvied up that old Ottoman property.

Why didn't the Fakestinians claim their land during 400 years of Ottoman rule?

Why didn't the Fakestinians claim their land since the dinosaurs roamed?

It was their land during the Ottoman rule.