Frank wrote on Nov 29
th, 2024 at 9:56am:
There is no Palestinian.
The modern name “Palestine” is derived from the common name for the region since the end of the Bronze Age (3300–1200 BCE). Ancient Egyptian inscriptions from the 12th century BCE referred to “Peleset”, and ancient Assyrian texts referred to “Palashtu”or “Pilistu”.
The area was also called Palestine by the Greeks long before the Romans. The Greeks had called the whole region “Palestina” or some variant for centuries. In the 5th century BCE, the Greek historian Herodotus used the word “Palaistine” to refer to the region. He traveled to Palestine, and
his writings speak of the land’s Arab inhabitants but not of Judea or Jews...
The Romans had also called the broader region “Syria Palaestina” prior to the Jewish revolts in the province of Judea, which was always seen as a component of this greater area of Palestine. The Roman Empire after the Bar Kohkba revolt incorporated Judea into a widened district of Palestine.
In sum, contrary to popular belief, the name “Palestine” did not originate with the Romans after it crushed the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 CE – 136 CE. On the contrary, it is the cognate of a common name for the region predating the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judea.
A Brief History of Palestine, from Canaan through the Mandate Era:https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2024/01/04/history-of-palestine/ Quote:There are different tribes.
So?
Quote:If they did not have Israel as a common enemy, they would kill each other.
You really have got no understanding of the history. Christians, Jews and Muslims had lived peacefully in that land for centuries. The problems began with the arrival of Zionist settlers around the turn of the century:
Khisas was a small village with a few hundred Muslims and one hundred Christians,
who lived peacefully together in a unique topographical location in the northern part of Hula Plain... Jewish troops attacked the village on 18 December 1947, and randomly started blowing up houses in the dead of night while the occupants were still fast asleep. Fifteen villagers, including five children, were killed in the attack. The incident shocked The New York Times’ correspondent, who closely followed the unfolding events. He went and demanded an explanation from the Hagana, which at first denied the operation. When the inquisitive reporter did not let go, they eventually admitted it. Ben-Gurion issued a dramatic public apology, claiming the action had been unauthorised but, a few months later, in April, he included it in a list of successful operations.
...some of the notables and community leaders (of Haifa) had realised that the moment the UN had adopted the Partition Resolution, they were doomed to be dispossessed by their Jewish neighbours.
These were people whom they themselves had first invited to come and stay with them back in the late Ottoman period, who had arrived wretched and penniless from Europe, and with whom they had shared a thriving cosmopolitan city – until that fateful decision by the UN.
--- Prof. Ilan Pappe,
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; Chapter 4: Finalising a Master Plan
Mghar... connects the lower Galilee with the Lake of Tiberias. Here the Jewish occupying force was faced with
a village where Christians, Muslims and Druze had coexisted for centuries. The military commander... executed several Muslims on the village’s piazza in front of all the villagers, which effectively ‘persuaded’ the rest to flee...
The village of Mujaydil had 2000 inhabitants, most of whom fled to Nazareth before the soldiers reached their houses. For some reason the army left these intact. In 1950, after the intervention of the Pope in Rome,
the Christians were offered the opportunity to move back but refused to do so without their Muslim neighbours. Israel then destroyed half the houses and one of the village’s mosques...
The village also had a Roman Catholic church, built in 1903, which housed on its first floor a trilingual school for boys and girls (teaching was in Arabic, Italian and French). It also had a local clinic for the benefit of all the villagers...
Mujaydil was a unique place in many other aspects. Apart from its religious buildings and modern infrastructure it had a relatively large number of schools. In addition to the two schools associated with the churches, there was also a state school, the Banin School... The village’s main source of collective wealth, which supported all these impressive constructions, was a mill, built in the eighteenth century, that served the villages in the vicinity,
including the people of the ‘veteran’ Jewish settlement of Nahalal.
Ibid. Chapter 7: The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June–September 1948
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