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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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Tue, 18 Jun 2002 03:25:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Chris
Ok let me clarify. No one that was living on the land ever called it Palestine
or called themselves Palestinians. The current group of 'Arab refugees' have
adopted the name I assume to reinforce their 'ancestoral' ties to the land.
Which is odd given that in 1948 most of them had not even been there for more
than 2 or 3 years. (That is why the U.N. redefined the term 'refugee' to
represent anyone who had been living on 'land X' for 2 or more years.)
-Mike Petrucelli
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