waggawoody wrote on Feb 12
th, 2026 at 8:01pm:
Gnads wrote on Feb 10
th, 2026 at 6:37pm:
Palestine & a Palestinian people are a manufactured myth(Yasser Arafat scam).
So why, prior to 1948, did the British and before them the Ottomans, call it Palestine?
Because it is a regional name for an area - like Gold coast, or The Illawarra, or New England, or The Pilbara ... on and on... The Sahara ..... it never was and unless promulgated, never will be a country.
Therefore there are no Palestinians, no such nationality - etc.
If you want to go further - the region was lived in by Arabs, Philistines (of some Greek origin), Druze and other Christians, descendant of Crusaders, Persians, Turks, and wait for it - JEWS. The GAZANS had their own place called - GAZA.
It was never a wholly Arab or Muslim area... it was a mixed population area with no distinct boundaries and those changed all the time, and it was almost entirely once the Hebrew lands.
Capisce?
Same sh!t, different arse.
Even Jews living in the region before 1948 referred to themselves as Palestinian Jews, and the Arabs, Palestinian Arabs, along with their tribal/settlement allegiance name within Palestine.
Using the region's name to define the people living in it is an accession to the name.