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Re: Poll: Majority Palestinians See Israel's Elimination as Goal
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:08:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > There is no (historic) Palestine. There is no such thing as Palestinians. • The
> > whole concept was made up during the last 50 years so 'we' could stop calling
> > them Arab refugees.
> However, you are quite wrong. The Balfour declaration (1917) quite clearly
> referred to the area as “Palestine”. I have no idea when it was first called
> that, but it is certainly not a post 48’ construct.
Is the claim that "Palestine" was made up in '48? I thought that 2500 years
ago Heroditus called the land that had been occupied by the Philistines by the
name of Palestine. Though I know there are references suggesting that the name
of that land is older. It hardly seems like a modern creation.
All that said, the 3000 years of history in that area certainly clouds the
genetic waters. Modern natives of that area are a mix of what used to be many
ethnic groups including Jews, Philistines and many others. I expect that
there's more ethnic similarity between modern Palestinians and Jews than there
is between either group and their named ancestral progenitors.
Chris
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