Setanta wrote:Palestine has been known as Palestine for thousands of years.
This page at historyworld-dot-com gives a good overview. References to "Alley Oop," Adam and Eve and Noah show us the depth of historical sophistication with which we are dealing here. Bedouins, commonly referred to as Arabs, have been living in that region for thousands of years. They didn't come in looking for work. If the land were "uninhabited," from whom is one alleging the Zionists "bought" land? In fact, after the Second World War, the region began to fill with European Jews who just took the land, and then demanded that any Palestinian who objected prove their title to the land in writing--which, of course, after centuries of occupation since time out of mind, they could not do. This was in fact the basis upon which Palestinian land and water rights were seized beginning in 1948.
Of course, with shills like Gunga around, the Israelis never have to fear fot the vigor of their propaganda machine in the United States.
I then wrote the following:
Setanta wrote:Herodotus first mentions "Palaistine" in The Histories, written in the fifthe century before the current era.
Bernard was whining on while this was going on, and i ignored him, and did not respond to nor refer to a single post with which he had blemished this thread. Gunga responded as followed:
gungasnake wrote:Setanta wrote:Palestine has been known as Palestine for thousands of years. ....
MOOooooooooo plop, plop, plop.......
Bernard has, in typical fashion gotten hysterical about my use of the term bullshit, when i had only referred to Gunga's tasteless introduction of it into the thread--but i'm not surprised, because Possum can't distinguish one member from another, and can't follow the thread of the conversation.
In response to Gunga's "bullshit" post, i posted the following:
Setanta wrote:Herodotus, in Book I, 105, of [i]The Histories[/i] wrote:Thence they went on to invade Egypt; and when they were in Syria which is called Palestine, Psammetichos king of Egypt met them; and by gifts and entreaties he turned them from their purpose, so that they should not advance any further: and as they retreated, when they came to the city of Ascalon in Syria, most of the Scythians passed through without doing any damage, but a few of them who had stayed behind plundered the temple of Aphrodite Urania.
Source, in a Greek and English concordance, at Sacred Texts dot com.
The Big Bird responded to Gunga's post as follows:
timberlandko wrote:Bullshit yourself, Gunga - while never was there a state or nation by that name, the overall region has been known as "The Palestine" or more simply, "Palestine" or cognates or particular linguistic equivalents thereof for millenia. Look up the etymology of the word "purple" and explore that word's relationship to the word /placename "Canaan".
Subsequently, i posted six or seven more citations of Herodotus, all showing the antiquity of the placename Palestine. At no time did i address the propaganda that Gunga and Possum are peddling in this thread about the relationship of the Israelis to the Palestinians--i only addressed Gunga's historical ignorance.
In a post subsequent to that,
Walter responded to both Possum and Gunga--but Possum can't distinguish between members, so he has been hysterically attacking me ever since. At not time did i address his contentions or quote his posts. I only talk to the likes of Possum, or his near-twin Ican't, when they lie about me.
