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Posted on 05/10/2009 11:50:10 AM PDT by PRePublic
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If you can prove a country called Palestine existed on Planet Earth in the few billion years before 1948 then wingless.aoriginality.com has $$$$ reward for you! COME ON DOWN!
They had no takers yet because you will never find information on something non-existent. (if it was a country, what was its capital, its flag, its government, who recognized it, what was its history, its currency, when did it declare independence etc...)
“Palestine”, like the “Levantine”, was a REGION, which at various times has been carved up into several quasi-national entities, which mostly lasted about as long as the chieftain or king that created them remained alive. Upon the death of that chieftain or king, the national entity was either divided, or absorbed by a neighboring entity.
Sometimes there was nobody at all in charge in the wilderness.
And that was “Palestine” in 1947.
ML/NJ
Hadrian called Israel palestine as an insult.
The country of "Palestine" did not "exist" before the terrorist group PLO "invented" it in its 1964 charter -- which also calls for the elimination of Israel. The PLO is now the PA, but those two statements remain in its charter.
No one serious says there was an independent country of Palestine in the past. The local Arabs of that area now identify by the name of Palestinians & they want Israel gone & replaced with a country named Palestine.
Get them gone & integrated into neighboring countries & stop this messing around already.
Were they the "Judean People's Front" or the "People's Front of Judea"?
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