When the names palestine & palestinian applied to Jews

[MartyNYC]

Middle East historian Professor Franck Salameh, author of the book, “The Other Middle East,” notes that the names palestine and palestinian are European in origin and originally applied to Jews, until Arabs later coopted them...

 

[Mindful]

Middle East historian Professor Franck Salameh, author of the book, “The Other Middle East,” notes that the names palestine and palestinian are European in origin and originally applied to Jews, until Arabs later coopted them...


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We’ve been through this issue endlessly. Yet Tinny still can’t or won’t get it.

Palestine was a geo political entity during the British Mandate. I have collectors’ postage stamps from those times, with Eretz engraved on them. The Jewish newspaper was called The Palestine Post.

 

[MartyNYC]

Middle East historian Professor Franck Salameh, author of the book, “The Other Middle East,” notes that the names palestine and palestinian are European in origin and originally applied to Jews, until Arabs later coopted them...


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We’ve been through this issue endlessly. Yet Tinny still can’t or won’t get it.

Palestine was a geo political entity during the British Mandate. I have collectors’ postage stamps from those times, with Eretz engraved on them. The Jewish newspaper was called The Palestine Post.

Ironic that so-called palestinians, a revolutionist nationalist group, take their identity from the British Mandate, a European imperialist, colonialist entity.

 

[Mindful]

Middle East historian Professor Franck Salameh, author of the book, “The Other Middle East,” notes that the names palestine and palestinian are European in origin and originally applied to Jews, until Arabs later coopted them...


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We’ve been through this issue endlessly. Yet Tinny still can’t or won’t get it.

Palestine was a geo political entity during the British Mandate. I have collectors’ postage stamps from those times, with Eretz engraved on them. The Jewish newspaper was called The Palestine Post.

Ironic that so-called palestinians, a revolutionist nationalist group, take their identity from the British Mandate, a European imperialist, colonialist entity.

I hadn’t thought of it that way. It also applies to the Pro PAL brigade.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Hezbollah buddies.

 

[Penelope]

No they don't take their name from the British Mandate.

 

[Mindful]

No they don't take their name from the British Mandate.

The British could have called it something else.

Any suggestions?

 

[MartyNYC]

No they don't take their name from the British Mandate.

Palestine was Britain’s name for the British Mandate. There was no administrative unit palestine in the Ottoman Empire.

 

[MartyNYC]

No they don't take their name from the British Mandate.

The British could have called it something else.

Any suggestions?

Israel, which eventually became the name.

 

[jillian]

Middle East historian Professor Franck Salameh, author of the book, “The Other Middle East,” notes that the names palestine and palestinian are European in origin and originally applied to Jews, until Arabs later coopted them...


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We’ve been through this issue endlessly. Yet Tinny still can’t or won’t get it.

Palestine was a geo political entity during the British Mandate. I have collectors’ postage stamps from those times, with Eretz engraved on them. The Jewish newspaper was called The Palestine Post.

The jewhatera don’t like that.