Maryland -
No one disputes the age of the word 'Israel' or its importance to the Jewish people, I'm sure.
But what Zionist posters need to keep in mind is that, prior to the formation of Israel in 1948, the word 'Israel' had rarely appeared on maps under that name. For centuries western maps called the area 'Palestine''.
It amazes me how often here we see very poorly informed posters whining about how Palestine "was never a country" without remembering that by those standards Israel was never a country either.
It's this kind of laughable double standard and cherry-picking of arguments that has cast Zionism in such a negative light.
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whoever it is who wrote the above nonsense---I am not surprised
that idiot sherri ENDORSED IT
The islamo nazi scum have devised a new libel-----They are
claiming that THE JOOOOOOS claim that "palestine"
never existed on maps
wrong again nazi dogs------PALESTINE is a word well known
to jews----and HAS BEEN IN USE FOR almost 2000 years by
jews-----it is the name ROMANS conferred on "ISRAEL/JUDEA
when they did the nazi thing there In fact they renamed
lots of places----jews used some of the new names but not
others They renamed Jerusalem AELIA CAPITOLINA
----a name jews did not use. the city of shechem became
NEOPOLIS-----since arabs cannot pronounce the "P"
THEY changed that one to NABLUS when they got there----
Since I did read the nazi propaganda as a child----nothing
that nazis claim actually surprises me ----even the silly word
games----
For the record ----HISTORICALLY "ISRAEL" was a country
"palestine" consists of the lands jews called Israel and
Judea in ancient times ---the lands were united eventually
Muslims did not consider
'palestine' to be a country-----in fact ONLY jews did
just as jerusalem is a city----named jerusalem whether
it is called aelia capitolina -----or whatever.
For the record----Jesus was not born in Israel according to
the new testament---he was born in Judea------but his parents
were from NAZARETH----which is Israel
At the time of the birth of jesus---Israel and Judea
were united into one country. Historically---it seems
that the whole thing was named by either title.
The romans tended toward JUDEA before they
renamed the place PALESTINA
For almost 2000 years the only people called
"PALESTINIANS" were jews living in palestine---the word
appears in hebrew and yiddish writings in old old books --
a long long word worked out phonetically-----it is not a word
of SEMITIC ORIGIN------it is awkward in both arabic and
hebrew---however hebrew and yiddish speakers have no problem
pronouncing it ------arabs cannot.
why do you nazi scum INVENT WORD NONSENSE?
