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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

” in fourth decade of the 7th century (641 C.E.). After their conquest ( muslims ) of the Byzantine provinces of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine (today’s Israel), ( arabs ) invaded Egypt in December 641 C.E.

The persecuted Copts were the original inhabitants. Egypt, before the Islamic invasion was not an Arab country...”


13 posted on 04/22/2007 8:25:18 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Your history is a little off—Jordan and Palestine didn’t exist until the British invented them in 1917—but then I am a stickler for correct history...the British coined the phrase ‘Palestine’ from the Latin Palestina, which referred to the region of Ramalla, or actually, Samaria...


19 posted on 04/22/2007 8:32:37 AM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
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