Capt. Blei-----whom are you accusing of claiming that
there was never a place called PALESTINE? Have
we not discussed the issue of "PALESTINA"---as the
GREEK word for a fairly large body of land ---invented some
2500 years ago by Herodotus----and later---ie first century AD---used by the ROMAN INVADERS as a word to describe
what they previously called JUDEA ???. I am a jew-----
I am descended from people who fairly recently sojourned in the area of the world called the AUSTRIAN HAPSBURG EMPIRE. The Austrian Hapsburg Empire-----was part of the "holy" roman empire.
I am neither hapsburgian or roman nor did my ancestors
so style themselves . Had any of
my ancestors migrated to PALESTINE-----centuries ago ----
they would have been called PALESTINIANS ---which would
mean "JEW LIVING IN PALESTINE" the erstwhile JUDEA.
Had one of their catholic neighbors migrated to Palestine-----
they would not have been called PALESTINIANS. They might have ended up in the ARMENIAN QUARTER of Jerusalem but I do not believe they were called "ARMENIANS" Arabs who, in 1950, lived in the erstwhile "Palestine"----were not
called 'palestinians' nor so styled themselves. Most were
called, simply---'arabs' some 'syrians' ----from what I got
from reading old travel brochures------some people called
them "Turkish" ??? well---that was Ottoman empire
days..
there was never a place called PALESTINE? Have
we not discussed the issue of "PALESTINA"---as the
GREEK word for a fairly large body of land ---invented some
2500 years ago by Herodotus----and later---ie first century AD---used by the ROMAN INVADERS as a word to describe
what they previously called JUDEA ???. I am a jew-----
I am descended from people who fairly recently sojourned in the area of the world called the AUSTRIAN HAPSBURG EMPIRE. The Austrian Hapsburg Empire-----was part of the "holy" roman empire.
I am neither hapsburgian or roman nor did my ancestors
so style themselves . Had any of
my ancestors migrated to PALESTINE-----centuries ago ----
they would have been called PALESTINIANS ---which would
mean "JEW LIVING IN PALESTINE" the erstwhile JUDEA.
Had one of their catholic neighbors migrated to Palestine-----
they would not have been called PALESTINIANS. They might have ended up in the ARMENIAN QUARTER of Jerusalem but I do not believe they were called "ARMENIANS" Arabs who, in 1950, lived in the erstwhile "Palestine"----were not
called 'palestinians' nor so styled themselves. Most were
called, simply---'arabs' some 'syrians' ----from what I got
from reading old travel brochures------some people called
them "Turkish" ??? well---that was Ottoman empire
days..