The NEWEST Official Discussion Thread for the creation of Israel, the UN and the British Mandate

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[Shusha]

And still.....not one Pro Palestinian person is capable of finding ANY history of a Palestinian People or Nation before the Mandate for Palestine.

Palestine, a word created by Herodotus in the 5th Century BCE to call the area where the Philistines were an Empire once.

Palestine, a word used by the Romans to change Judea's name so that the Jews would forget their homeland.

Palestine, which like Philistines, means INVADERS. Which is what the Philistines were then, and the Muslim Arabs calling themselves Palestinians now, are now.

Philistine Greeks from Greece.
Palestinian Arabs from Arabian Peninsula.

Did you watch the Oxford Union debate from last week? One of the speakers claimed the "Hebrews" were Palestinian.

 

[Sixties Fan]

I saw this theory in Twitter and I traced it back to an article in Biblical Archaeology Review from 2001 by David Jacobson. He makes a convincing case that the Greek word "Palestine" does not come from the Philistines, as has been largely assumed, but from Palaistís, the Greek translation of "wrestler," a translation of Israel - which means "wrestles with God."
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...The striking similarity between the Greek word for “wrestler” (palaistês) and the name Palaistinê—which share seven letters in a row, including a diphthong—is strong evidence of a connection between them. Adding to this the resemblance of Palaistinê to Peleshet, it would appear that the name Palestine was coined as a pun on Israel and the Land of the Philistines. In Greek eyes, the people of Israel were descendants of an eponymous hero who was a god wrestler (a palaistês); the name wrestler also puns on the name of a similar-sounding people of the area known locally as Peleshet.

Apparently, the Greeks made a habit of translating place names rather than transliterating them. So this is a very compelling theory.

And if true, it proves again that the only indigenous Palestinians are Jews.

(full article online)

The name "Palestine" may be a literal Greek translation of Israel - and not so much derived from Philistines

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This is a redoux of the old US Manifest Destiny concept when we killed the buffalo to starve the Indians, killed most of them, and then rounded up the rest of them and moved them off the land we wanted into reservations. It was wrong then and it's wrong now, no matter how successful it was. Israel will stay in Syria, the heights, and Lebanon and the West bank will belong to them too, and we're balls deep in these shennagins.

 

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Gaza in Context, part 1: Conquest and Colonialism in the Middle East during the 20th Century​

 

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UN suspends its humanitarian work in Houthi rebels' stronghold in Yemen after more staff abductions

The United Nations says it has suspended its humanitarian operations in the stronghold of Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they detained eight more U.N. staffers

abcnews.go.com

I guess the UN is willing to cut off humanitarian aid! GENOCIDE!

 

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Teach-in on Palestine​

 

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