To: i-node who wrote (797081 ) 7/25/2014 8:26:47 PM From: tejek Respond to >> Actually they are reducing Gaza's footprint; not necessarily withdrawing. Gaza is a third of what it was in 1947. There was a time when Gaza actually touched the WB. Israel's annexation of the WB and Gaza is one of the biggest scams this world has seen. The reference to "Palestinian Land" is just as ridiculous. There was "Palestine" and it had nothing, whatsoever, to do with "Palestinians". In fact, these people are called "Palestinians" today only because they aren't Jews and happen to live in the Jewish land called "Palestine". Arabic : ??????? Filas?in , Falas?in , Filis?in ; Greek : ?a?a?st???, Palaistine ; Latin : Palaestina ; Hebrew : ??????? Palestina ) is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River . It is sometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province Syria Palaestina , the Byzantine Palaestina Prima and the Umayyad and Abbasid province of Jund Filastin . The region is also known as the Land of Israel ( Hebrew : ????????? Eretz-Yisra'el ), [1] the Holy Land , the Southern Levant , [2] Cisjordan , and historically has been known by other names including Canaan , Southern Syria and Jerusalem .en.wikipedia.org
