Paki gob on a stick wrote on Oct 18^th, 2023 at 10:05pm:

How about the nig nogs?

You see. This is why I don't bother to reply to you Karnal.
Your trolling posts are just 'stupid' in themselves.
You're trying to be witty, but you're so incoherent in your attempts that its pointless to reply to your own derailment - all for what? Just seeking attention like a Dirty Sex Tourist of Thai boys would. Yuk! You're disgusting and your posts just plain stink!

Jasin wrote on Oct 18^th, 2023 at 2:05pm:


That's nothing but Zionist propaganda.

See Prof. Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History:


First documented in the late Bronze Age, about 3200 years ago, the name
Palestine (Greek: Παλαιστίνη; Arabic: نيطسلف, Filastin) ...

The name Palestine is the most commonly used from the Late Bronze
Age (from 1300 BC) onwards. The name is evident in countless histories,
‘Abbasid inscriptions from the province of Jund Filastin ... and Philistine
coins from the Iron Age...

The celebrated English historian and Enlightenment author Edward
Gibbon, writing in 1776, noted that ‘Phoenicia and Palestine will forever
live in the [collective] memory of mankind’ (Gibbon 1838, Vol. 1: 40; 1840, Vol. 5: 173).

Palestine was the name used most commonly, consistently and continuously
for over 1200 years throughout classical and Late Antiquity, from the
highlight of classical Athenian civilisation in 500 BC...

Classical Antiquity and the Hellenistic period from 500 BC to 135 BC is
one of the periods when records of life in Palestine were numerous and
well-kept. This is also a period in which the first famous historians and
authors of Antiquity, including Herodotus and Aristotle, wrote about the
country in detail, and the strategic, commercial and cultural importance
of Palestine to the various Hellenistic monarchs, military commanders,
traders, travellers, cartographers and scientists led to great interest, and
close examination of the country and its people.

The term Palestine was also extensively used in referring to the entire
area connected with modern Palestine in 5th century BC Ancient Greece.
The name Παλαιστίνη (Phalastin) was widely used by the most important
ancient Greek historians, cartographers, writers, philosophers and scientists,
including Herodotus, Aristotle and Ptolemy...

It was in the writings of Herodotus (who lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484–425 BC)
that the name took on its Greek form Παλαιστίνη (Palaistinê or Phalastin)
and was used as the name of the region. Herodotus talks about Palaestine,
Palaestine-Syria and the ‘Syrians of Palestine’ and he distinguishes the
Phoenicians from the ‘Syrians of Palestine’ (Herodotus 1841: 135).

In his geographic representation of Παλαιστίνη (Palaistinê or Phalastin)
Herodotus uses the term in its wider sense and not merely in reference to
Philistia and not only mentions Palestine as an autonomous district of Syria
but describes it geographically, as the country we know today, but also including
some adjoining areas in the Sinai and the north, as well as the area east of the river Jordan.
Herodotus also adds that southern Palestine sea ports from Cadytis to Jenysus
(or Ienysos, modern Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip) were occupied by Arabians.

Herodotus’ Histories is one of the most famous historical texts on the origins of the
Greco-Persian Wars, a text known to academics, historians and history
students throughout the world. Histories is now considered a founda‐
tional text in the Western academy. It serves as a key record of ancient
oral traditions, politics, geography and the clashes of various powers that
were known in Greece, Western Asia and North Africa. When it comes
to ancient Palestine and toponymic memory, modern Western Christian
writing relies partly on Herodotus’ classic work.

In this classical text (written from the 450s to the 420s BC), Herodotus
writes about a ‘district of Syria, called Palaistinê’ and lists place names of
ancient Palestine. Herodotus himself visited Palestine in the fifth decade of
the 5th century BC. He travelled extensively through ‘the part of Syria called
Palestine, I myself saw’,  and acquired first-hand knowledge of the country
and its people (Jacobson 1999). Herodotus refers to Παλαιστίνη (Palaistinê),
Syria, or simply Palaistinê, many times as an area comprising the whole
region between Phoenicia and Egypt (see also Herodotus 2014: 724, Map 10).

Herodotus’ text includes the description of key towns and ports, the
road later to be called Via Maris, and many other places he had seen and
recorded. He describes in detail the city of Ascalon, an ancient seaport city
which dates back to the Neolithic Age. At the time of Herodotus Palestine
was polytheistic and he consequently describes Ascalon as having a temple
for Aphrodite Urania...

Herodotus, who travelled widely in Palestine and Syria and beyond the
coastal region, does not mention Judaea or refer to Jews. He does not
mention terms such Cana’an or Canaanites or Israelites in Palestine; nor does
he describe monotheism in the country. First, as archaeological evidence
shows, monotheism was a much later development in Palestine and the
Near East (Masalha 2007). Second, also significantly, many of the Old
Testament religio-ideological dogmas evolved centuries after Herodotus.

Approximately a century after Herodotus, the celebrated Greek scientist,
philosopher and historian Aristotle (Aristotélēs, 384–322 BC) talks about
‘Palestine’ and does not mention the term ‘Cana’an’ – primarily because
‘Palestine’ applied to a real historical region, while the term ‘Cana’an’
was probably derived from a subsequently constructed religio-ideological
narrative of the Old Testament with which at the time Aristotle could not
have been familiar.