Why That Texas Town is Named “Palestine”

Arutz 7 ^ | 19 February 2003 | Dr. Rafael Medoff

[JeeperFreeper]

It's pronounced " Pal-eh-steen".

[Cold Heat]

Yup, we have a Moscow and Star City Arkansas as well.

I live in Monticello. I guess names are largely misleading.

[yarddog]

Everytime I see the name Palestine, Texas I remember a girl I worked with about 30 years ago.

The reason I remember her so well is that she was drop dead gorgeous! I wonder if she was descended from that group who founded the town. She was a Baptist.

[blam]

We have an Arab, Alabama.

[yarddog]

There is a Hahira, Georgia. It is home to Ray Stevens who liked to sing about Ahab the Arab.

[Publius]

I served in the army 30 years ago with a Signal Corps captain from Palestine, Texas.

[No Truce With Kings]

I lived in Palestine, TX, for eight years. Whenever I was expecting mail from Europe, especially the UK, I would instruct the sender to put U.S.A in LARGE letters after the zip code. If not, the mail would get routed through the Palestinian Authority before getting to me.

Once, someone from Israel sent me mail -- there was a note in Hebrew on the cover. I had a friend translate, and the words roughly read, "don't be a putz and send this Yasser's place. The goyim I'm sending this to is in Texas, the United States and is an all right guy."

Since I was doing quite a bit of freelance writing, and dealing with European publishers, I almost got a P.O. Box in Elkhart, TX, (12 miles down SH19), just to avoid the confusuon.

[ItsJeff]

Which do you think would be most likely to change its name? Palestine or Paris, Texas?

: )

[DonnerT]

The shuttle was falling apart over Nazareth first.

[Servant of the Nine]

Yup, we have a Moscow and Star City Arkansas as well.

There is a Moscow, Texas, which was also under the Columbia's track.

[Servant of the Nine]

A Baptist minister named Daniel Parker brought twenty-five families from Illinois to settle in eastern Texas in the 1830s.

This was no doubt the famous Baptist "Nosey" Parker.

So9

[No Truce With Kings]

If you go north on SH19 from Palestine, in about 30 miles you go through Athens, TX. Another 30-40 and you hit Canton, TX. Paris, TX is at the end of SH19, but you go through Sulphur Springs, TX first.

[blam]

"I lived in Palestine, TX, for eight years. Whenever I was expecting mail from Europe, especially the UK, I would instruct the sender to put U.S.A in LARGE letters after the zip code."

Before there were zip codes, I would get letters back from Alaska that were addressed to my parents in Theodore, Ala.

[Servant of the Nine]

If you go north on SH19 from Palestine, in about 30 miles you go through Athens, TX. Another 30-40 and you hit Canton, TX. Paris, TX is at the end of SH19, but you go through Sulphur Springs, TX first.

I know, I was born in Palestine.

So9

[Burkeman1]

Why is there a Lebanon in New Hampshire?

[Howie]

Down the road about 30 miles from me is Mecca Ca.

[babaloo999]

The Trinity River is just west of Palestine.

[brazoschick]

Thank You! I am so glad somebody finally set the record straight. This has been driving me crazy since that terrible day.