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Just a few questions I have found interesting and would like to have peoples input.
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| In 135 AD, after suppressing the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome since the Great Revolt, Emperor Hadrian revoked the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit. The name "Provincia Syria Palaestina" was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized "Palestine" is derived.
The Christian Crusaders later adopted the word Palestine as well. After the fall of the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official name. The name, however, continued to be used informally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan River. The Ottoman Turks, who were non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years (1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, the Palestine region was attached administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul. The name Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and applied to the territory in this region that was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is the Arab pronunciation of the original Roman name "Palaestina". Some other terms that have been used to refer to all or part of this area include Canaan, Greater Israel, Greater Syria, the Holy Land, Iudaea Province, Judea,[6] Israel, "Israel HaShlema", Kingdom of Israel, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael or Ha'aretz), Levant, Retenu (Ancient Egyptian), Southern Syria, and Syria Palestina. |
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| [*]Who was the palestinian leader before Arafat? |
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| Leader of the Palestinians
On 13 November 1966, Israel launched a major raid against the Jordanian-administered West Bank town of as-Samu, in response to a Fatah-implemented roadside bomb attack, which had killed three members of the Israeli security forces near the southern Green Line border. In the resulting skirmish, scores of Jordanian security forces were killed and 125 homes razed. This raid was one of several factors that led to the 1967 Six-Day War.[17] The Six-Day war began when Israel launched a preemptive air strike against Egypt's air force on June 5, 1967. The war ended in Arab defeat and Israel's occupation of several Arab territories, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Although Nasser and his Arab allies had been defeated, Arafat and Fatah could claim a victory, in that the majority of Palestinians, who had up to that time tended to align and sympathize with individual Arab governments, now began to agree that a 'Palestinian' solution of their dilemma was indispensable.[18] Many primarily Palestinian political parties, including George Habash's Arab Nationalist Movement, Hajj Amin al-Husseini's Arab Higher Committee, the Islamic Liberation Front and several Syrian-backed groups, virtually crumbled after their sponsor governments' defeat. Barely a week after the defeat, Arafat crossed the Jordan River in disguise and entered the West Bank, where he set up recruitment centers in Hebron, the Jerusalem area and Nablus, and began attracting both fighters and financiers for his cause.[18] At the same time, Nasser contacted Arafat through Mohammed Heikal (one of Nasser's advisers) and Arafat was declared by Nasser to be the 'leader of the Palestinians'.[19] In December, Ahmad Shukeiri resigned his post as PLO Chairman. Yahya Hammuda took his place and invited Arafat to join the organization. Fatah was allocated 33 of 105 seats of the PLO Executive Committee while 57 seats were left for several other guerrilla factions.[18] |
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| I think this comes from a steady diet of media hype. |
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| Historically the land in question ...well...it depends on whos history you are reading. But the historical questions asked, lead to what I believe to be truth. |
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| Whose history, and whose truth? As history of that part of the world can be debated in a million ways. It has been conquered by so many people, and has become so very complicated. The best case scenario can only be tolerance of different views. And I can't see how that would be possible either as the conflict is just so deeply imbedded. |
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deanhills wrote
Dean you seem to be contradicting your own post in your initial reply. The fact is your responses were correct. Palestinian people as we know them today are a recent invention. They come from Jordan, Egypt ( like Yasser Arafat), and multiple other arab countries. |
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