Especially since there is no such thing as a Palestinian, and there never was.
Didn't the Romans coin that moniker in 20 BC? They were the conquerors, so they could name it anything they wanted to. So, anyone born there after them naming the area, Palestine is a "Palestinian," right?
Your thoughts...?
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The Romans coined the moniker after the Bar Kochba revolt in 132-135 CE. It was the second devastating revolt of Jews in Judea, and the last of a series of revolts by Jews in the Empire. The Romans renamed the province Palestine, coined from the name of Israel’s ancient enemy, the Philistines, and it was intended to be an insult. I still consider the use of the term to be an insult to Jews.
Many modern day Arabs who consider themselves to be Palestinians lay claim to the land by claiming descent from the Philistines.
Prior to 1948, the Jews and Arabs of the land were called PALESTINIANS ... all of them. They were either Palestinian Arabs or they were Palestinian Jews.
After 1948, the term was abandoned for the Jews and they were simply Israelis. The named remained for the “Palestinian Arabs” though, while the Arab part was dropped — because it became redundant without the term “Palestinian Jew”.
AND THUS ... today we have what remains of that original terminology from history — PALESTINIANS.
ALSO ... please note that the STATE OF ISRAEL officially recognizes these people as “Palestinians”. This is stated in official documents and treaties with Israel. And, when you listen to even the Prime Minister of Israel (Benjamin Netanyahu), he refers to them — ALL THE TIME — as Palestinians.
I think if the State of Israel and the Prime Minister of Israel has no problem in referring to them OFFICIALLY that way, then we shouldn’t either.
The truth of the history remains the same no matter the name you use.
OH ... and one more thing the Jerusalem Post was ORIGINALLY called the “Palestinian Post”. The news of the new state of Israel was printed up in the Palestinian Post.