The European Invention of Palestine

[Amadoos]

I'm glad we invented israel, palestine and whatever, we brought civilization to the tent dwellers. Now instead of still riding camels and magic carpets, they have Mercedes and Bentleys.

 

[JStone]

I'm glad we invented israel, palestine and whatever, we brought civilization to the tent dwellers. Now instead of still riding camels and magic carpets, they have Mercedes and Bentleys.

We Jews invented Israel 3000 years ago and the Jews civilized the world with the 10 Commandments when ignorant Arabs were burying their babies alive.

PBS Nova...

In the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt in 1896, British archaeologisit Flinders Petrie unearthed one of the most important discoveries in biblical archaeology known as the Merneptah Stele. Merneptah's stele announces the entrance on the world stage of a People named Israel.

The Merneptah Stele is powerful evidence that a People called the Israelites are living in Canaan over 3000 years ago

Dr. Donald Redford, Egyptologist and archaeologist: The Merneptah Stele is priceless evidence for the presence of an ethnical group called Israel in Canaan.

 

[Amadoos]

I'm glad we invented israel, palestine and whatever, we brought civilization to the tent dwellers. Now instead of still riding camels and magic carpets, they have Mercedes and Bentleys.

We Jews invented Israel 3000 years ago and the Jews civilized the world with the 10 Commandments when ignorant Arabs were burying their babies alive.

The 10 commandments never existed, but I'm talking about today's Israel, who cares what happened 3000 years ago?
But Israel has my blessing to nuke any camel jockey country that bothers them.

 

[JStone]

I'm glad we invented israel, palestine and whatever, we brought civilization to the tent dwellers. Now instead of still riding camels and magic carpets, they have Mercedes and Bentleys.

We Jews invented Israel 3000 years ago and the Jews civilized the world with the 10 Commandments when ignorant Arabs were burying their babies alive.

The 10 commandments never existed, but I'm talking about today's Israel, who cares what happened 3000 years ago?
But Israel has my blessing to nuke any camel jockey country that bothers them.

Another unsuccessful abortion shares his low IQ

 

[Amadoos]

We Jews invented Israel 3000 years ago and the Jews civilized the world with the 10 Commandments when ignorant Arabs were burying their babies alive.

The 10 commandments never existed, but I'm talking about today's Israel, who cares what happened 3000 years ago?
But Israel has my blessing to nuke any camel jockey country that bothers them.

Another unsuccessful abortion shares his low IQ

So I guess you're going to share your proof that the 10 commandments existed? Cool.

 

[editec]

Etymology of the name Palestine

Further information: Definitions of Palestine and History of the name Palestine
The name "Palestine" is the cognate of an ancient word meaning "Philistines" or "Land of the Philistines".[7][8] The Hebrew name Peleshet (פלשת Pəléshseth)- usually translated as Philistia in English, is used in the Bible to denote the southern coastal region that was inhabited by the Philistines to the west of the ancient Kingdom of Judah.[9]

The earliest known historical mention is thought to be in Ancient Egyptian texts of the temple at Medinet Habu which record a people called the P-r-s-t (conventionally Peleset) among the Sea Peoples who invaded Egypt in Ramesses III's reign.[10] The Assyrian emperor Sargon II called the same region Palashtu or Pilistu in his Annals.[7][8][11] Neither of these sources provide a clear definition of the term.
Ancient Greek geographers

The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the wider region as defined in modern times was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece. Herodotus wrote of a 'district of Syria, called Palaistinê" in The Histories, the first historical work clearly denoting the region of Palestine as a wider region than biblical Philistia.[12][13][14][15] Approximately a century later, Aristotle used a similar definition in Meteorology, writing "Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them," understood by scholars to be a reference to the Dead Sea.[16]

William Beloe notes that "It should be remembered that Syria is always regarded by Herodotus as synonymous with Assyria. What the Greeks called Palestine the Arabs call Falastin, which is the Philistines of Scripture."[17] This is confirmed by George Rawlinson in the third book (Thalia) of The Histories where Palaestinian Syrians are part of the fifth tax district spanning the territory from Phoenicia to the borders of Egypt, but excludes the kingdom of Arabs who were exempt from tax for providing the Assyrian army with water on its march to Egypt. These people had a large city called Cadytis, identified as Jerusalem,[18] and what Herodotus means is Syria (Assyria) of Palestine.
Roman Empire

Strabo, a prominent Roman-era geographer (although he wrote in Greek), referred to the region as Coele-Syria around 10-20 CE.[19][20] According to Moshe Sharon, Palaestina was commonly used to refer to the coastal region and shortly thereafter, the whole of the area inland to the west of the Jordan River.[7]The latter extension occurred when the Roman authorities, following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in the 2nd century AD, renamed "Provincia Judea" (Iudaea Province; originally derived from the name "Judah") to "Syria Palaestina" (Syria Palaestina), in order to complete the dissociation with Judaea.[21][22]

Robinson, writing in 1865 when travel by Europeans to the Ottoman Empire became common asserts that, "Palestine, or Palestina, now the most common name for the Holy Land, occurs three times in the English version of the Old Testament; and is there put for the Hebrew name פלשת, elsewhere rendered Philistia. As thus used, it refers strictly and only to the country of the Philistines, in the southwest corner of the land. So, too, in the Greek form, Παλαςτίν&#951, it is used by Josephus. But both Josephus and Philo apply the name to the whole land of the Hebrews ; and Greek and Roman writers employed it in the like extent."[23]
Byzantine usage

During the Byzantine period, the entire region (Syria Palestine, Samaria, and the Galilee) was named Palaestina, subdivided into provinces Palaestina I and II.[24] The Byzantines also renamed an area of land including the Negev, Sinai, and the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula as Palaestina Salutaris, sometimes called Palaestina III.[24]

The Arabic word for Palestine is فلسطين (commonly transcribed in English as Filistin, Filastin, or Falastin).[25] Moshe Sharon writes that when the Arabs took over Greater Syria in the 7th century, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration before them, generally continued to be used. Hence, he traces the emergence of the Arabic form Filastin to this adoption, with Arabic inflection, of Roman and Hebrew (Semitic) names.[7] Jacob Lassner and Selwyn Ilan Troen offer a different view, writing that Jund Filastin, the full name for the administrative province under the rule of the Arab caliphates, was traced by Muslim geographers back to the Philistines of the Bible.[26]

The use of the name "Palestine" in English became more common after the European renaissance.[27] It was officially revived by the British after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and applied to the territory that was placed under The Palestine Mandate.

Some other terms that have been used to refer to all or part of this land include Canaan, Greater Israel, Greater Syria, the Holy Land, Iudaea Province, Judea,[28] Israel, "Israel HaShlema", Kingdom of Israel, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael or Ha'aretz), Zion, Retenu (Ancient Egyptian), Southern Syria, and Syria Palestina.

 

[JStone]

Etymology of the name Palestine

Further information: Definitions of Palestine and History of the name Palestine
The name "Palestine" is the cognate of an ancient word meaning "Philistines" or "Land of the Philistines".[7][8] The Hebrew name Peleshet (פלשת Pəléshseth)- usually translated as Philistia in English, is used in the Bible to denote the southern coastal region that was inhabited by the Philistines to the west of the ancient Kingdom of Judah.[9]

The earliest known historical mention is thought to be in Ancient Egyptian texts of the temple at Medinet Habu which record a people called the P-r-s-t (conventionally Peleset) among the Sea Peoples who invaded Egypt in Ramesses III's reign.[10] The Assyrian emperor Sargon II called the same region Palashtu or Pilistu in his Annals.[7][8][11] Neither of these sources provide a clear definition of the term.
Ancient Greek geographers

The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the wider region as defined in modern times was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece. Herodotus wrote of a 'district of Syria, called Palaistinê" in The Histories, the first historical work clearly denoting the region of Palestine as a wider region than biblical Philistia.[12][13][14][15] Approximately a century later, Aristotle used a similar definition in Meteorology, writing "Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them," understood by scholars to be a reference to the Dead Sea.[16]

William Beloe notes that "It should be remembered that Syria is always regarded by Herodotus as synonymous with Assyria. What the Greeks called Palestine the Arabs call Falastin, which is the Philistines of Scripture."[17] This is confirmed by George Rawlinson in the third book (Thalia) of The Histories where Palaestinian Syrians are part of the fifth tax district spanning the territory from Phoenicia to the borders of Egypt, but excludes the kingdom of Arabs who were exempt from tax for providing the Assyrian army with water on its march to Egypt. These people had a large city called Cadytis, identified as Jerusalem,[18] and what Herodotus means is Syria (Assyria) of Palestine.
Roman Empire

Strabo, a prominent Roman-era geographer (although he wrote in Greek), referred to the region as Coele-Syria around 10-20 CE.[19][20] According to Moshe Sharon, Palaestina was commonly used to refer to the coastal region and shortly thereafter, the whole of the area inland to the west of the Jordan River.[7]The latter extension occurred when the Roman authorities, following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in the 2nd century AD, renamed "Provincia Judea" (Iudaea Province; originally derived from the name "Judah") to "Syria Palaestina" (Syria Palaestina), in order to complete the dissociation with Judaea.[21][22]

Robinson, writing in 1865 when travel by Europeans to the Ottoman Empire became common asserts that, "Palestine, or Palestina, now the most common name for the Holy Land, occurs three times in the English version of the Old Testament; and is there put for the Hebrew name פלשת, elsewhere rendered Philistia. As thus used, it refers strictly and only to the country of the Philistines, in the southwest corner of the land. So, too, in the Greek form, Παλαςτίν&#951, it is used by Josephus. But both Josephus and Philo apply the name to the whole land of the Hebrews ; and Greek and Roman writers employed it in the like extent."[23]
Byzantine usage

During the Byzantine period, the entire region (Syria Palestine, Samaria, and the Galilee) was named Palaestina, subdivided into provinces Palaestina I and II.[24] The Byzantines also renamed an area of land including the Negev, Sinai, and the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula as Palaestina Salutaris, sometimes called Palaestina III.[24]

The Arabic word for Palestine is فلسطين (commonly transcribed in English as Filistin, Filastin, or Falastin).[25] Moshe Sharon writes that when the Arabs took over Greater Syria in the 7th century, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration before them, generally continued to be used. Hence, he traces the emergence of the Arabic form Filastin to this adoption, with Arabic inflection, of Roman and Hebrew (Semitic) names.[7] Jacob Lassner and Selwyn Ilan Troen offer a different view, writing that Jund Filastin, the full name for the administrative province under the rule of the Arab caliphates, was traced by Muslim geographers back to the Philistines of the Bible.[26]

The use of the name "Palestine" in English became more common after the European renaissance.[27] It was officially revived by the British after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and applied to the territory that was placed under The Palestine Mandate.

Some other terms that have been used to refer to all or part of this land include Canaan, Greater Israel, Greater Syria, the Holy Land, Iudaea Province, Judea,[28] Israel, "Israel HaShlema", Kingdom of Israel, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael or Ha'aretz), Zion, Retenu (Ancient Egyptian), Southern Syria, and Syria Palestina.

"Palestine" in a nutshell http://www.usmessageboard.com/4154063-post1.html

 

[Amadoos]

The 10 commandments never existed, but I'm talking about today's Israel, who cares what happened 3000 years ago?
But Israel has my blessing to nuke any camel jockey country that bothers them.

Another unsuccessful abortion shares his low IQ

So I guess you're going to share your proof that the 10 commandments existed? Cool.

Where's my proof?

 

[JStone]

Eminent Middle East Historian Bernard Lewis...

For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable. For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant but not abhorrent in the same way as it was to Jews. The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole [of Syria]. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.

At first, the country of which Palestine was a part was felt to be Syria. In Ottoman times, that is, immediately before the coming of the British, Palestine had indeed been a part of a larger Syrian whole from which it was in no way distinguished whether by language, culture, education, administration, political allegiance, or any other significant respect. The dividing line between British-mandated Palestine and French-mandated Syria-Lebanon was an entirely new one and for the people of the area was wholly artificial. It was therefore natural that the nationalist leadership when it first appeared should think in Syrian terms and describe Palestine as southern Syria

With the British conquest in 1917-1918 and the subsequent of a mandated territory in the conquered areas, Palestine became the official name of a definite territory. To begin with, this designation was acceptable neither to Jews nor Arabs. From the Jewish point of view it restored a name associated in the Jewish historic memory with the largely successful Roman attempt to destroy and obliterate the Jewish identity of the land of Israel. It was a name which had never been used in Jewish history or literature, and the very associations of which were hateful. From the outset, Jews living under the Mandate refused to use this name in Hebrew but instead used what had become the common Jewish designation of the country---Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel. After a long battle, it was agreed that the official designation of the country in Hebrew on postage stamps, coins, etc would be Palestina, transcribed into Hebrew letters but followed by the abbreviation "aleph yod" For Jews, this was a common abbreviation for Eretz Yisrael.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJjm5K07V0]Who are the Palestinians? - YouTube[/ame]

 

[editec]

The European Invention of Palestine

What's in a name?

The land has been called many things by many people for thousands of years, folks.

It had a name (actually a number of names depending on region) BEFORE the Hebrews took it over, too.

Some of that region was was called Canaan, for example.

 

[JStone]

The European Invention of Palestine

What's in a name?

The land has been called many things by many people for thousands of years, folks.

It had a name (actually a number of names depending on region) BEFORE the Hebrews took it over, too.

Some of that region was was called Canaan, for example.

Middle East Historian Bernard Lewis...

The countries forming the Western arm of the Fertile Crescent were called by the names of the various kingdms and peoples that ruled and inhabited them. Of these, the most familiar, or at least the best documented, are the southern lands, known in the earlier books of the Hebrew Bible and some other ancient writings as Canaan.

After the Israelite conquest and settlement, the area inhabited by them came to be described as "land of the children of Israel [Joshua 11:22] or simply "land of Israel" [Samuel 13:19]. After the breakup of the kingdom of David and Solomon in the tenth century BCE, the southern part, with Jerusalem as its capital, was called Judah, while the north was called Israel

History lesson gratis...

 

[Amadoos]

JStone, where's my proof of the 10 commandments? You got none, so next time son, don't use it as an example.

 

[JakeStarkey]

JStone, where's my proof of the 10 commandments? You got none, so next time son, don't use it as an example.

noobie, you are a nothing to be telling anyone what they can or can't do here.

 

[Amadoos]

JStone, where's my proof of the 10 commandments? You got none, so next time son, don't use it as an example.

noobie, you are a nothing to be telling anyone what they can or can't do here.

Sorry, I don't listen to fake coons.

 

[JStone]

JStone, where's my proof of the 10 commandments? You got none, so next time son, don't use it as an example.

noobie, you are a nothing to be telling anyone what they can or can't do here.

Sorry, I don't listen to fake coons.

Little twit is a big man behiind the computer keyboard.

 

[JStone]

Since "Palestine" was invented by the Romans and British and the EU supports a Pallie state, PallyLand should definitely be accepted into the EU and see for themselves what a charming people the Pallies truly are.

Palestinians celebrate 9/11
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k]Palestinians celebrating the fall of the twin towers on 911 - YouTube[/ame]

Palestinians condemned the killing of bin Laden their "holy warrior"
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVTTbmN1aRI]Palestinians condemn killing of 'holy warrior' bin Laden - YouTube[/ame]

Palestinians call for death of all Americans and Jews
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rls9eRKyo]Islam: Oh Allah - Kill all Jews and Americans! - YouTube[/ame]

Palestinians boast of the death of their own children and wives: "We Desire Death Like You Desire Life"
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWIDZ7Jpdqg]Hamas - "We desire death like you desire life" - YouTube[/ame]

Nazi-Collaborating Palestinian Mufti Leader Greets Hitler
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSUEx1cKUlg]1941 The Grand Mufti meets Hitler - YouTube[/ame]

Islamonazi Palestinian

My message to the loathed Jews is that there is no god but allah, we will chase you everywhere We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that there is no better blood than the blood of the Jews. We will not leave you alone until we have quenched our thirst with your blood, and our children's thirst with your blood, we will not rest until you leave the Muslim countries.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rleFpY402vM]Palestinian - Terrorism - YouTube[/ame]

Young Islamonazi-In-Training: Shahad, 9 year old Palestinian...

The Prophet Muhammad said the hour of resurrection will not take place until you fight the Jews The rock and the tree will say, "Oh, Muslim, servant of allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and fight him!"

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSwpAX1xvrc]Palestinian children are taught: Genocide is God's will - YouTube[/ame]

Welcome to the World of the Palestinian

Allah, oh our Lord
Vanquish your enemies, enemies of the religion [Islam]
in all places
Allah, strike the Jews and their sympathizers,
the Christians and their supporters
the Communists and their adherents
Allah, count them and kill them to the last one,
and don't even leave even one.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrI8-qb9M9A]Hamas: Kill Christians and Jews "to the last one" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Amadoos]

noobie, you are a nothing to be telling anyone what they can or can't do here.

Sorry, I don't listen to fake coons.

Little twit is a big man behiind the computer keyboard.

I get it from you.

 

[JStone]

Sorry, I don't listen to fake coons.

Little twit is a big man behiind the computer keyboard.

I get it from you.

I'm 6'2" That would be, what, about a foot taller or more than you, dink?

 

[Amadoos]

Little twit is a big man behiind the computer keyboard.

I get it from you.

I'm 6'2" That would be, what, about a foot taller or more than you, dink?

Then I must be 6'3".

 

[JakeStarkey]

JStone, where's my proof of the 10 commandments? You got none, so next time son, don't use it as an example.

noobie, you are a nothing to be telling anyone what they can or can't do here.

Sorry, I don't listen to fake coons.

So that is why you did?