Watching a news coverage on the ongoing Israeli-Palestine skirmish in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank confirms to me that nowhere else in my experience is the truth about Israel as willfully subverted, and the myth about Palestine as gleefully perpetuated, as in the liberal media. Here are the historical facts: the modern State of Israel is directly connected to biblical Israel, the land which God covenanted to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (the father of the Jews, later re-named Israel).In AD 135, after crushing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans (under the Roman Empire) evicted the Jews from the holy land and applied to it the name 'Palaestina' to minimise Jewish identification with the land. The name was derived from the word Philistia, so chosen to insult the Jews whose ancient enemies were the Philistines.
History attests to the reality that there has never been a land known as 'Palestine' governed by Palestinians, nor has there ever been a people called Palestinians. 'Palestinians' are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
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