Posted on 12/23/2013 10:12:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
Israeli officials reacted with bitter scorn to a Christmas message from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which he called Jesus a Palestinian and suggested Israel was to blame for the exodus of Christians from the Holy Land.
He should have read the Gospel before uttering such offensive nonsense, but we will forgive him because he doesnt know what hes doing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told The Times of Israel on Monday. Abbass statement is an outrageous rewriting of Christian history, according to Palmor.
Earlier on Monday, Abbas published a lengthy Christmas greeting, calling Jesus a Palestinian messenger who would become a guiding light for millions around the world. Although he expressed his commitment to the peace negotiations with Israel, he expressed harsh criticism of Israeli policies, including an accusation that Jerusalem is responsible for the plight of Christians in the Holy Land.
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Who described the region as Palestine in the fifth century?
It wasn’t called Palestine until the second century, so at the turn of that millennium, there was no Palestine. There was Judea and Galilee. The New Testament people were either Judeans (Jews) or Galilean.
Herodotus? I’d like to see your source of that. It was the Romans who named the place Palestine, actually Syria Palestina, in the second century of the common era.
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2013/12/22/what-is-palestine-and-who-are-palestinians/
No, it's a place. And if you were to move there...you could be a "Palestinian" too
Fifth century BCE. Herodotus...In the 5th Century, he described the region as Palestine.
>>Well I guess another historian heard from.<<
AHA!...And basically, what current countries would that region called Palestine have contained?
according to Herodotus, the region included the area called Judea and the Jordan Valley. Therefore, Judeans are technically Palestinians.
It was the Romans who named the place Palestine, actually Syria Palestina, in the second century of the common era.
So...it's been Palestine for a day or two.
Your ignorance is showing.
So exactly what would you call a long term Japanese immigrant to the region known as Palestine?
Apparently if he converted to Judaism, you'd call him a Jew
The name is also dated to c. 1100 BCE through Egyptian sources as Peleset.
Nope. the Peleset is what the Egyptions called the Peleset,
with who they skirmished in the reign of Ramses III, and a reference to Israel in the reign of Merneptah, his father.
Which of those histories am I to read? Besides, it doesn’t matter. He was in Greece. At the time, the region was the Persian province of Judah, not Palestine. Herodotus could call it what he wanted, and probably also intended an insult by naming the region after the Philistines, to whom the Helenic Greeks were related. The Greeks saw the Jews as a backward and superstitious people.
The province was not officially renamed Palestine until after the Bar Kochba revolt in the second century CE. so the people living there before that were more likely Greeks, Romans, Jews, Samaritans, or Galileans, not Palestinians.
“The province was not officially renamed Palestine...”
You know there is no, nor has there ever been, a county named “America”. Yet there are hundreds of millions of people who identify themselves as “American”.
The United States of America.
Well, then they should all call themselves Asians, by your logic.
People living there did not all themselves Palestinians until after the 1967 war.
I hate when that happens! :-)
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