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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7182)	4/30/2007 2:58:08 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

len..."Your example is akin to Northern Europeans, Canadians, and Americans returning to Africa to colonize the place based on the fact that the whole of humanity began there and they were just reclaiming what was theirs originally."..... No len..but nice try....you say arab muslims should have land that is now the state of Israel because they were there when that land became the State of Israel... so by your own reasoning Jews should have that land because they were there 2000 years before arab moslums. And of course Jews have ALWAYS lived on that land. So tell me Len why do you say you are only keeping the land you own and live on for the natives that were there first? Do you think they own the land you live on? is that why you are so gracious as to want to give it back to them? In any case Len IMO the arab moslum terrorists ( so called palestinian's ) have no more right to that land than you or I do. The Jews were there a few thousand years before any arab muslims were even invented. so Len by your reasoning of wanting to give back land to natives who were there before you so to were jews on the land they now hold before arab moslums. IMO :-)

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7182)	4/30/2007 6:38:36 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Where did the name Palestine come from? palestinefacts.org 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: