North america is indian land but Israel isn't Isreali land...

[Irie]

The dimlib mind is a duplicituous place.....

[plainolamerican]

Saying a god gave you a country doesn't make it so.

[Lobo]

<< North america is indian land but Israel isn't Isreali land...  >>

Israel is Israeli land. The problem is that Israel wants to take Palestine and Palestinian land too.

[Irie]

Being the origial inhabitor does though, eh, adolph?

[Irie]

Under Roman Rule — “Syria Palaestina”

After crushing a Jewish revolt in 135 CE, the Romans renamed the province “Syria Palaestina” to:

> Erase Jewish identity from the land of Judea.

This area roughly covered:

Modern Israel

The West Bank

Gaza

Parts of Jordan, and southern Lebanon

So this is the first official use of “Palestine” as a political/geographical term.

[Lobo]

<< Being the origial inhabitor does though, eh, adolph?  >>

Who do you think the "original inhabitors" were?

<<So this is the first official use of “Palestine” as a political/geographical term>>

So, the Palestinians are just "squatters", because they've only been the majority population there a "mere" 18 centuries?

Unlike, say, England, which has only been inhabited and run by English people (Anglo-Saxons) since the 6th century CE. Or this country, continent and hemisphere, which has only been called "America" since the 16th century CE.

Between the 2nd century CE and the 20th century CE, Jews were only a relatively small minority in the Levant.

BTW: The original name of the land now called "Israel" was "Canaan", inhabited primarily by Phoenicians, Philistines, and other non-Jewish Semitic peoples (like the Arabs). 

According to the Jewish people's own Bible, the ancient Israelites were commanded by their tribal deity, Yahweh, to invade the land and steal it from its owners, slaughtering "every man, woman, child, and beast in the land" on their way (history's first known account of genocide).

[Irie]

Since they were a small minority, AT THAT POINT, the previous history is irrelevant.  Tell that to the "Native Americans".

[Irie]

Curious though, what is the cut off?  250 years?  500....1000?

On Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 3:05:53 AM UTC-5 Lobo wrote: