Uh-huh ... and where did the romans get the name from?
A completely uninhabited land, hmm, well then how do you explain the many thousands if not millions of ancient well-tended olive trees, the functioning wells all over, the buildings, rude as many of them were, the livestock wandering about [oh that was just bedouins, sorry]
No doubt the population was much less in those days, this would be true of most places, but 'a land without a people', nope it was not that ... long time ago i posted here a bunch of old turkish census stuff, there were many towns and villages scattered throughout the land, you did not challenge the truth of that, you just ended up with the old who-cares shrug and passed on to some other angle
Probably around the time i suggested that Uganda would have been a better choice for Herzl et al, because the indigenous there would have been easier to eliminate, and later their religious brethren wouldn't have discovered near as much oil, but who knew that then, and then you got all offended at that .... oh oh such delicate sensibilities, for one who finds such shrugs so natural |
