Palestine is older than the Romans...........and Judea came after Caanan.....Your people originally came from Babylonia.......When the Assriyian Empire was at it's zenith they traded with Palestinians but fought and overthrew the Israelites.
Israel has so many problems,at last secular Jewish Israelis are uprising against the Conservative Wealthy and the Ultra's who bleed the real Jewish people,who are the workers,employers and the Real Heart of Israel.
Israel One People(!!!!!) but too, on the Edge
Freedom for Palestine
Try again I correctly stated that THE ROMANS REFERRED to JUDEA/ISRAEL as "palestina"
----that name comes from an historian who referred to the area which is roughly northern Gaza and Ashkelon as PHILITIA because that is where the PHILISTINES once lived By 2000 years ago ----which is an important marker in history because it is the time of the life of JESUS and the time when Rome occupied ISRAEL JUDEA ----the people called the PHILITINES were no long extant They had LEFT being Aegeans----back to their lands of origin
I got bad news for you------the secular jewish Israelis are not UPRISING against anyone They need not-------they have never been oppressed by the "CONSERVATIVE WEALTHY" ---the whole country tends to the left it is the wealthy and conservative who feel oppressed you write as if you have spent too much time in the student center cafe' Like the rest of the world----israel is in an economic crunch--------but SORRY ------no REVOLUTION IN THE CARDS Sit tight-----there is going to be a war the ummah will not go quietly into that cosmic sewer
Just a quickie as I'm flying out to KL,Malaysia....... the Philistines were in fact used by David in the WAR against SAUL....when David became King David he elimininated most of the male Philistines,the women and children were absorbed in to the tribes of Israel.....they never left and went anywhere.......Phisistines are NOT Palestinians..Rosie your gash of history is loose at best,methinks you have only studied Jewish History.You need to broaden your reading matter.steve...Never said that there was a Rev in Israel but there are a lot of very unhappy citizens........but a study centre sounds pretty interesting though.
In the 2nd century c.e., the last attempt of the Jews to achieve independence from the Roman Empire ended with the well-known event of Masada, that is historically documented and universally recognized as the fact that determined the Jewish Diaspora in a definitive way. The Land where these things happened was until then the province known as Judæa , and there is no mention of any place called "Palestine" before that time. The Roman emperor Hadrian was utterly upset with the Jewish Nation and wanted to erase the name of Israel and Judah from the face of the Earth, so that there would be no memory of the country that belonged to that rebel people. He decided to replace the denomination of that Roman province and resorted to ancient history in order to find a name that might appear appropriate, and found that an extinct people that was unknown in Roman times, called "Philistines", was once dwelling in that area and were enemies of the Israelites.
Let us hear what other Arabs have said:
"There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the landmass. But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today... No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough".
"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it".
- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -
"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not".
- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 -
"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria".
- Representant of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 -
What other
Arabs declared after the Six-Day War:
"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel".
- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -
"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people".
- Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat -
"As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Everyone knew their origin was not from the Canaanites, but ironically, this is the kind of stuff our education in the Middle East included. The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today's Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, muslim Sherkas from Russia, muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life by Abdul Qader Al-Husseni (the leader of the Palestinian revolution) after being accused of selling land to Jews. He used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants".