Posted on 02/24/2017 10:03:34 AM PST by Kaslin
During the joint White House press conference on February 15 featuring President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the latter said, “The Chinese are called Chinese because they are from China. The Japanese are called Japanese. And the Jews are called Jews because they came from Judea.”
Not surprisingly, a columnist in Israel’s hard-left newspaper Haaretz, Carolina Landsmann, sarcastically fired back in print, “Maybe at the next press conference Netanyahu will be so kind as to explain why the Palestinians are called Palestinians.”
Since that is not likely to happen, I will answer her for him. We call the Palestinians “Palestinians” because it is basic to this generation’s politically correct way, post-Holocaust, of hating Jews, and here’s why:
In every generation, people hate Jews because they are believed to commit evil deeds, and their current crime is the theft of Palestine from the Palestinians. And never mind that these “Palestinians” were never mentioned in the documentation of the League of Nations (1920-1945) that in its 1922 Mandate for Palestine explicitly identified the country as the “historic homeland of the Jewish people.” In its three decades of existence, the League referred only to Jews and Arabs, never “Palestinians.”
Then, after WWII, when the League morphed into the United Nations Organization, for the UN’s first quarter-century no document referenced any “Palestinians” either.
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“Palestinians,” (c) Yassar Arafat, 1966.
There’s no such thing as a ‘Palestinian’.
Just call them “displaced Jordanians” and “other random Arabs”.
How many times do I have to repeat this - it’s “Palisimians”, NOT “Palestinians”!
Just like the boys who self-identify as girls. These Arabs self-identify as Palestinians.
I prefer “Paleostinians”, from the old high Latin.
Shouldn’t that be neostinians?
Palestinian is a polite way to say Jihadi. Would not want to offend the death cultists.
That’s “protosimians” - primitive monkeys.
Because it’s not publicly acceptable to call them what I really think of them?
Is it just a coincidence that the words “Palestine” and “Philistine” are so similar?
Excellent point
How about Proctosimians. aka Butt Monkeys
When in Rome....... Just what is so holy about Rome anyways?
I have read that Constantine named the area “Palestine” because the word was close to “Philistine”, and he wanted to call it something that would anger the Jews. Not sure if that’s true.
“Inbred bloody savages” works, too.
>> We Call Them Palestinians Because…’
the get upset when we call them terrorists.
Just more of the democrats and leftists trying to control the narrative and the way people think by relabelling or redefining things, actions, and people.
In they way they now speak of “protections” instead of “rights” for their victim groups of gays, trannies, cross dressers, criminals, rioters, illegals, moochers, terrorists, etc.
They way they refer to illegal aliens as “undocumented residents”.
The way they refer to muslim jihadis and militant muslims as “refugees”.
If you’re talking about who has a right to the land and the Jews don’t because they displaced the “Palestinians”, then wouldn’t that also apply all the way back up the line to the Jews who owned the place in Bible times, or even farther? Shouldn’t we be crying tears for the Canaanites and Jebusites and Edomites and so on?
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