Originally posted by subz
The pot calling the kettle black here. This is your thread Muaddib, are you going to avoid it since it didnt turn out quite exactly as planned?
Why because someone posted his opinion?...
Today's Palestinians are not even the descendants of ancient Palestinians...so if anyone wants to claim that most of the Israeli people shouldn't be there because they had lived in other lands for a long time, the same can be said of the people that are called these days Palestinians....
Here are a few sites which tell the story, and btw, the Jewish people won those lands, again, by right of might...which is the same way the Arabs won those lands in the past... But of course, because Jewish people are now in that area "it is all illegal, etc, etc"....while when the Arabs did the same "it was all good and legal"...
The name Palestine refers to a region of the eastern Mediterranean coast from the sea to the Jordan valley and from the southern Negev desert to the Galilee lake region in the north. The word itself derives from "Plesheth", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". Plesheth, (root palash) was a general term meaning rolling or migratory. This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea. The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs.
The Philistines reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts.
www.palestinefacts.org...
en.wikipedia.org...(region)
[edit on 8-6-2006 by Muaddib]
