[ValenB4]

Like everyone surrounding the Mediterranean, they are an amalgamation of every group that has been through the area. It doesn't matter what they call themselves or what anyone else calls them, whether Palestinians or Arabs or Martians, they exist. Playing word games like this is pointless. There was no such thing as "Italians" before the unification.

"Italy is only a geographical expression." - Prince Klemens Von Metternich

[Marguerite]

Fiddlesticks, it's you who play semantics.
They are not palestinians, because there never was, in history a country named "Palestine".

[familyop]

1669 - Deborah Wilson, the Quaker wife of Robert Wilson, had at one time walked naked through the streets of Salem as a spiritual testimony. For this she had been "sentenced to be tied at a cart's tail with her body naked downward to her waist, and whipped". She was brought before the court in 1669 for "frequently absenting herself from the public ordinances", but the case "was dismissed, court being informed that she is distempered in her head."

Hmmm...if generic Arabs should call Israel whatever they want to call it, I wonder what we should call Pennsylvania then?