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The fact that Palestinianism identity is of such recent and expedient origins suggests that the Palestinian primacy is superficially rooted and that it could eventually come to an end, perhaps as quickly as it got started.

Translated by George Rawlinson

Only one question never seems to be addressed:

Who are the Palestinians?
Who are these people who claim the Holy Land as their own?
What is their history?
Where did they come from?
How did they arrive in the country they call Palestine?

The term “Palestine” came from the name that the conquering Roman Empire gave the ancient Land of Israel in an attempt to obliterate and de-legitimize the Jewish presence in the Holy Land. The name “Palestine” was invented in the year 135 C.E.  Before it was known as Judea, which was the southern kingdom of ancient Israel. The Roman Procurator in charge of the Judean-Israel territories was so angry at the Jews for revolting that he called for his historians and asked them who were the worst enemies of the Jews in their past history. The scribes said, “the Philistines.”  Thus,

Israel first became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam. Seven hundred and twenty-six years later in 586 B.C.E.  these first ancient Jews in the Land of Israel [Judea] were overrun and its First Jewish Temple (on Jerusalem’s Old City Temple Mount) was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of ancient Babylon. Many of the Jews were killed or expelled; however many were allowed to remain.  These Jews along with their progeny and other Jews who would resettle over the next 500 years, rebuilt the Nation of Israel and also a Second Temple in Jerusalem upon the

As the object, a carved spoon, was handed back at a ceremony in Bethlehem, officials said it was the first time the United States had repatriated an antiquity to the Palestinian government. Via NY Times: Jan. 5, 2023 American officials met with representatives of the Palestinian Authority in Bethlehem onThursday and handed back a 2,700-year-old looted item in what officials said was the firsttime the United States had repatriated a stolen relic to the Palestinian government. The object, described as a “cosmetic spoon,” was a tool carved from ivory and dating tobetween 800 and 700 B.C. It was used to

Mahmoud Abbas’ 17-year hold on power can end any day because his health can fail and he is 87 years old, after all.  Abbas, the mass murderer, has designated a lieutenant, Hussein al Sheikh, to be his successor as Fatah party chief. Via the NY Sun: The West Bank could descend into chaos once Mr. Abbas is gone. Fears of the incoming right-wing Israeli government — which are intensified by dire predictions around the world — add to Palestinian Arab volatility. A bloody West Bank eruption is highly likely. How all sides would handle it, however, is much less predictable.