apparently the original Palestinians were not even Semitic...see the
following link:
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_name_origin.php
and they invaded Judea/Israel way back in ancient times!
if I recall correctly, the Romans conquered Judea/Israel not Palestine!
what possible claim can current Palestinians have to the land of
Judea/Israel?
WHAT DID ROME CALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL -- & WHERE WERE ITS BORDERS?
http://www.esek.com/jerusalem/iudaea.html
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maybe a little more light on the path to understanding from this link
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/:
The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine
****tions of selection of articles, reprinted by permission of the
publisher.
Joan Peters has written and lectured widely on the Middle East, Central
America, and the Soviet Union. She has contributed to Harper's,
Commentary,
The New Republic, The New Leader, and other periodicals, and was a White
House consultant on the Middle East in 1977.
a.. Politically motivated mythology of "Palestine"
Roots of the conflict
a.. After the destruction of the Temple, the Jews fled to Arabia
b.. Medina, Islam's second holiest city, was originally a Jewish
"settlement"
c.. Islam justifies its existence through the failure of Judaism, a
successful Jewish State is a theological threat to Moslems everywhere
7th-18th Centuries
a.. Continuous Jewish Presence in the "Holy Land"
b.. The Islamic Conquest's Plunder of Palestine
c.. Religious Persecution of Jews by Arabs
d.. The Myth of Moslem-Jewish coexistence in "Palestine"
e.. Throwing Stones at Jews is based in Ancient Islamic Ritual
f.. Oriental Zionism of Arab-born Jews, one thousand years before
Theodore
Herzl
The Condition of Palestine
a.. Palestine was inhabited by a mixed population
b.. Palestine, a land virtually laid waste with little population
c.. Bareness and oppression of Palestine due to feudal system of taxes
by
absentee Arab Landowners
d.. Native Population almost wholly descended from Jews who had been
forcibly converted to Christianity or Islam, not Arab in origin
Arab Nationalism
a.. The Myth of Palestinian Nationalism, narrowly defined, anti-Semitism
b.. How Feudal Arab Landowners who exploited their peasantry became
Nationalist Leaders when Jewish economic success threatened to liberate
their peasantry
c.. The proposed 1938 & 2001 partitions of Western Palestine & The
British
Policy of Appeasement
Population Movements
a.. Substantial Immigration of Arab Migrant workers into Western
Palestine
from 1880-1948
Refugees
a.. Palestinian Refugees, invited to leave in 1948
b.. How many Palestinians Refugees? inflating the numbers
c.. Arab-Jewish Refugees, the other Middle Eastern Refugee problem
d.. Exchange of Populations
e.. Why are Palestinian Refugees treated differently than all other
refugees in the world?
f.. Palestinian Refugees, unlike other refugees in the world, were
denied
resettlement op****tunities, for political reasons
g.. Bibliography
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