Palestine

[rhino 0]

I asked Skyrad this question now I will answer it.. You see this area we call Palestine NEVER belonged to them..

Rhino


Where did the name Palestine come from?

The name Palestine refers to a region of the eastern Mediterranean coast from the sea to the Jordan valley and from the southern Negev desert to the Galilee lake region in the north. The word itself derives from "Plesheth", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". Plesheth, (root palash) was a general term meaning rolling or migratory. This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea. The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs.

The Philistines reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts.

From the fifth century BC, following the historian Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean "the Philistine Syria" using the Greek language form of the name. In AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and so renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit. The name "Provincia Syria Palaestina" was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized "Palestine" is derived.

This remained the situation until the end of the fourth century, when in the wake of a general imperial reorganization Palestine became three Palestines: First, Second, and Third. This configuration is believed to have persisted into the seventh century, the time of the Persian and Muslim conquests.

The Christian Crusaders employed the word Palestine to refer to the general region of the "three Palestines." After the fall of the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official designation. The name, however, continued to be used informally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan River. The Ottoman Turks, who were non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years (1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, the Palestine region was attached administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul. The name Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and applied to the territory in this region that was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine.

The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Roman "Palaestina". Quoting Golda Meir:

The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity. [In an article by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, November 25, 1995]

[rhino 0]

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/meaning.html

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early.php

[Skyrad 0]

You answered it?? Looks like a cut and paste job Plagerism LOL
So now I have three questions for you,
1) Who are the Teletubies?
2) What is the derivation of Teletubie?
3) Who lived in Teletubieland before Tinkywinkie and co?
I'll be back to check the answers tomorrow

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[rhino 0]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are your descendants from Teletobia? LOL

All B.S. Aside, 90 percent of people have NO CLUE as to what Palestine is and where it came from. That land doesn't belong to Palestinians because Palestinians don't exist

Rhino

[bbarnhouse 0]

ummmmmm hate to be the devil's advocate here but......I suppose that all this land in the Americas was never stolen from the Native Americans either.....

[pilotdave 0]

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That land doesn't belong to Palestinians because Palestinians don't exist

There's a whole bunch of angry guys with rocks that'll disagree with ya!
Dave

[bbarnhouse 0]

Yeah good thing cause I might have to polish my spoon.......what can I say except that........LUMMY made me do it!
Bwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[lummy 4]

OHHH NO DEAR, I only asked you to STOP ME, you ran RIGHT in and posted it yourself.....

I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1

[bbarnhouse 0]

Now Lumsters......Don't make me tell Bytch that you keep looking at me. Bytch Lummys lookin at meeeeeeeeeeeee!!
LMAO

[billvon 3,120]

>All B.S. Aside, 90 percent of people have NO CLUE as to what
> Palestine is and where it came from. That land doesn't belong to
> Palestinians because Palestinians don't exist.

Well, as Betsy said, the same could be said of Americans. To take it a step further, there are indeed true Americans here - we have sorta exiled many of them to reservations and casinos.

However, that doesn't mean that it's OK to boot all 230 million European, African and Asian descended immigrants (i.e. most of us) out of the US. It has become our home. Same thing with the Palestinians. Any solution to the Middle East problem will come from both sides negotiating over how to deal with the present people who consider that area their homes, not by considering what happened during biblical times.