ManusJustus said:
Slimebeast said:
ManusJustus said:
Tyrannical said:
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Arabic, Palestine is called Philistine and Palestinians are called Philistines. Its a direct relationship to the Philistines that lived in the area during the time of the Bible.
Palestinians (both Muslim and Jewish) have been living in the region since before the Roman Empire. Many Jews stayed in Roman Palestine despite the Diaspora, and over time most of them converted to Christianity and then Islam. Just because people change language and religion doesnt mean somebody else had to come in and they went out.
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haha, you are right and wrong. The reason Palestine in arabic sounds like filistin is because there is no letter 'P' equivalent in the arabic language. so 'P' is usually pronounced with an 'F' sound or 'PH' sound. The Philistine people you are thinking of in the Bible are not Semetic origin as Jews and Arabs are. Biblical philastines are long gong my friend. They were actualy people who originated from phoenician areas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines
Palestinians as a nation/cultural identity didn't come about until around the late 1800's. However, Arabs have been the majority population in the area since about 300 AD.
