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To: SkyDancer
Palestine was a name, not a country.

It's what the Romans called the region.

22 posted on 06/24/2018 3:35:56 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; SkyDancer

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Centuries after the sacking of Jerusalem, Romans used the Name “Palestine” which was a mis-spelling of Philistine, on some maps.


25 posted on 06/24/2018 3:39:19 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

And no such thing as Palestinians.


32 posted on 06/24/2018 4:19:15 PM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a man's gives to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It was Judea in the time of Christ. The name Palestine was only invented after the Diaspora.


67 posted on 06/24/2018 8:45:32 PM PDT by iowamark
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