Originally posted by Chico
That is not fact. That is fiction. And to point that out is not anti-Semitic. You'd do well not to cry wolf.
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You said: "Palestine has never existed as a country in its own right ... The whole land has always been Israel."
That is not fact. That is fiction. And to point that out is not anti-Semitic. You'd do well not to cry wolf. -
Links or it never happened
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I assuming that your garbled text means "Post links to prove it happened". Well my information comes from several books. I suggest you do some reading. Jonathon Dimbleby has one called "The Palestinians" though I can't comment on the quality. One I liked was co-written by a Rabbi and an Arab scholar. Naturally it was separated into two distinct parts, each written by one author. I was provoked into reading up on this by a Jewish Israeli colleague, who was a likeable lad and a bit of a leftie by Israeli standards (though still reassuringly right wing).Originally posted by MailmanLinks or it never happened
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Wrong - In the time of King David or thereabouts, about 1200 BC, the Phillistines settled land along a coastal strip which became a separate state called Philistia. They were Greek settlers (Phillis = Hellas) and more advanced in most respects than the Jewish people of the time. (Goliath's real name was probably something like Agoliathes.)Originally posted by Chico
Wrong - In the time of Christ, and for centuries before that, what is modern Israel was a patchwork of separate countries, as a historical map shows, with the Israelites occupying a small central region that didn't even include Jerusalem. The Bible gives a somewhat one-sided view of their significance.Originally posted by Chico
Hadrian was emperor in around 120 AD. Palestine first became part of the Roman empire when it was conquered by Gnaeus Pompeius in 62 BC. By your timescale the Duke of Wellington would have been running the Falklands WarHadrian (Roman Emperor) after he conquered the land and because of his hatred for Jews, renamed Judea "Palestine" after the Philistines
Feck it, it's friday evening. What am I doing wasting my time correcting Chico's posts yet again? I'm off ...Last edited by OwlHoot; 3 February 2006, 20:09.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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The important bit is that muslim palestine never existed. As you said yourself, the philistines were related to the greeks, not ayerabs.
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You really are dense, aren't you?Originally posted by MailmanComment
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Lord knows what you are on about. The important point is that the Israel that we see today is a modern invention, and that for several thousand years the inhabitants of that area were majority Arab with small numbers of Jews, Christians etc.Originally posted by Mailman
Anyway, you don't want to go giving Plaid Cymru ideas or there'll be Welsh settlers flooding into England, claiming it as their ancestral homeland.Comment
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That's the price of democracy,
When the British people where given a chance to stop the wars and killing, they chose not to !! their vote went to Blair and the war
When the Americans had a chance to choose peace, they didn't, they voted for Bush and his wars
When the Iraqis were given a chance they also choose shia(thought to be extreme Islam)
When the Germans were given the choice .. whom did they choose??Comment
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It is not a price, it is the choice of the people. This means that the leaders are accountable and take responsibility. There is still no consensus that the wars were a bad thing, so dont make assumptionsOriginally posted by zamzummimLet us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent
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