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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7802)10/27/2001 8:13:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to 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.



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7802)10/27/2001 8:17:57 PM
From: Carolyn  Respond to of 281500
 
Good point. Every Christian Lebanese I have known does not consider himself to be an Arab. More a matter of snobbery, though, IMO.



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7802)10/27/2001 8:27:29 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander  Respond to of 281500
 
Hawk, have you been reading too much of Reader's Digest of the 60s??

A hawk should obviously be able to focus in on that, clearly, as well as see more wide,
overall tendencies??

Ilmarinen (airman in english)


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