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To: lorne who wrote (10885)	1/13/2002 2:21:21 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

You have stumbled on the very complicated subject and region....Why there is no country Kurdistan, where Kurds predate their conqurers? (Arabs, and Ottomans) Does this mean there would be no country Kurdistan? If Arabs migrated into Palestine, what makes them Palestinians? How long Palestinians must stay in Lebanon to become Lebanese? bartleby.com Despite their lack of political unity throughout history, the Kurds, as individuals and in small groups, have had a lasting impact on developments in SW Asia. Saladin, who gained fame during the Crusades, is perhaps the most famous of all Kurds.

To: lorne who wrote (10885)	1/13/2002 3:45:07 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

What I have not yet come across during this ancient time frame is any mention of peoples known as Palestinians. That's hardly surprising, since the term 'Palestinian' as currently used does not predate the 1960's and the formation of the PLO. If you look at documents from the 1948 time period, you will see them discuss the problem of "Arab refugees from Palestine". There was at that time no notion of a separate Palestinian nation; Arab nationalism at that time was aimed at a Pan-Arab nationality. The term "Palestine" is the Roman form of the word "Philistine". In 135 CE, after he had put down the second Jewish rebellion and enslaved and deported a large percentage of the surviving population, the Emperor Hadrian renamed the province from "Judea" to "Syria Palestina", and its capitol from "Jerusalem" to "Aelia Capitolina". Hadrian also built a Temple of Zeus on the site of former Jewish Temple. That's the origin of the term "Palestine".