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To: massgopguy

“There are no Palestinians.”


Right! What in the world IS a ‘Palestinian?’ Is that like the Canaanites of the early Old Testament history?


8 posted on 05/04/2007 10:16:50 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: John Leland 1789

The Roman Emperor Hadrian named the region Palestine around 100 AD to further infuriate the Jews. The name was derived from the Philistines, the old adversary of the Jews.


10 posted on 05/04/2007 10:20:43 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: John Leland 1789; massgopguy
“There are no Palestinians.”

Right! What in the world IS a ‘Palestinian?’ Is that like the Canaanites of the early Old Testament history?

See Post 28.


29 posted on 05/04/2007 12:52:38 PM PDT by Polybius
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