On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:19:06 GMT, "Jack F. Twist"
First of all, as I believe you know, the word "Palestine" was given to the province of Judaea by the Romans after the Bar Kochba Rebellion, specifically in order to insult the Jews, so the name is less than 2,000 years old. Yes, I buttume you'll bring in the Philistines, who never ruled much more than the current Gaza Strip - just a bit more, because Ashdod and Atlit as well as Gaza were Philistine ports back in the day, but certainly none of the center of Israel, let alone Jerusalem.
Now, the next thing you have to do is establish that there had been a province, let alone independent country of Palestine some time in the last few hundred years before the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Instead, it was ruled by the Ottoman Empire as simply part of the province of Syria, along with what are now Lebanon and Jordan. You know that, too. It's just that these truths are inconvenient for you because you hate Kuwait and hate Israel - why, you even put its name in quotation marks.
Michael
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