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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7802)10/27/2001 8:13:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
As for the Phillistine argument, I read somewhere that in Arabic, Palestine and Phillistine are the same word, which may explain the attempt to draw their lineage.


It does explain it, but the attempt remains historically ridiculous.

There's no mystery about the name Palestine. In 135 CE, after the Emperor Hadrian put down the Bar Kochba rebellion and killed or sold most of the Jews, he changed the name of the province from Judea to Syria Palestina. So the reaching back to the Philistines was Hadrian's doing.
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