If I were a Palestinian...

[Slimebeast]

ManusJustus said:

Tyrannical said:

superchunk said:

If I were a Palestinian, I would dismantle the fiction called the "Palestinian Authority," ending the show called "the peace process" and sending away the "contributing nations."

Why not just eliminate the fiction called Palestinian?

There is no Palestinian language, culture, ethnic group, or practicaly anything else, they are Arabs that just hapen to be living there.

Palestine is an ethnic group and has its own culture.  Just because they speak Arabic and there isnt a Palestinian language doesnt mean they arent their own group.  Morroco and Syria speak the same language, so they should be the same country.  America doesnt have its own language, maybe we should rejoin the United Kingdom.

The word Palestine itself is derived from Philistine, and is pernounced that way in Arabic (I really dont know why we call it Palestine, though that was the Roman name for the region).  The Philistines have been there since before the Hebrews moved in, and should have more rights to Palestine (Philistine) land than the European Jews we put there after World War II.

The obvious answer is for Palestine to be given its own country without being occupied or dominated by Israel.  Israelis and Palestinians are too different and there is too much bad history for anything good to ever come out of the continued Israeli occupation of Palestine.

The Philistines are extinct, and they were a non-Semitic people. Modern so called Palestinians have nothing to do with the ancient Philistines. Palestinians are Arab immigrants that came to the region several hundreds of years after the Jews were cast out of Israel by the Romans in 135 C.E.