TG> we got Goliath dropping dead of shock! You know
TG> he was a Palestinian didn't you?
:::grumble:::
No, he was NOT... He was a Philistine... "Palestinian" is a term
that has been misappropriated by pretenders & foisted off in the
PC community to legitimize the claims of squatters...
The term "Palestine" was first used by the Roman emperor, Hadrian
(his kludge of the word Philistia), in an effort to break Israel's
national identity to better effect their enslavement of my people.
So, he chose the name for a small hangnail of land (Philistia --
which just barely passes for the Gaza Strip today), occupied by the
most despised enemies of the Israelites and used THAT to label the
entire nation of Israel!
What the PC morons seem to miss, is that the people who claim to
be "Palestinian" have ZERO in common with Philistia, Philistines,
or the "Palestinians" of the Bible era -- they are NOT related.
Let me quote to you from an article covering this topic:
    No better illustration of the phenomenon can be set forth
    than the current attempt by Palestinians to de-Judaize Jesus
    and turn members of the early Church into Arabs rather than
    Jews. PLO leader Yassir Arafat and Hanan Ashwari make the
    absurd claim that they can trace their Arab ancestry to the
    first Christians -- a strange statement indeed, considering
    the fact that there were no Arabs in the area until the
    Muslim conquest of the seventh century. Ashwari, spokeswoman
    for the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East Peace
    Conference, declared last October, "I am a Palestinian
    Christian. I am a descendent of the first Christians in the
    world, and Jesus Christ was born in my country, in my land."
    Arafat, a Muslim, joins her by saying that the Apostle Peter
    was "a Palestinian who defied Rome." Such claims reflect the
    new crusade to Palestinize Jesus and, as was stated in a
    Jordanian TV production, blame the Jews for murdering Jesus,
    "the Palestinian prophet."
    Sad to say, there are those who are joining the campaign to
    place Kaffiyahs* on the heads of Jesus and His first-century
    followers. Their stated aim is to forge a Muslim-Christian
    alliance against Israel and the Jewish people. The Anglican
    Church in Jerusalem, for example, has joined with a world
    Islamic body to call for an international conference on the
    situation for Christians in the Holy Land. Canon Naim Ateek
    of St. George's Cathedral in Jerusalem goes so far as to
    refuse to acknowledge the Jewishness of the New Testament.
    "Jesus was born in Bethlehem," he writes, "grew up in
    Nazareth, was baptized in the Jordan River... Therefore, the
    first witnesses to the resurrection were Palestinians; the
    Church was born in Palestine as the early followers of Jesus
    were Palestinians. The Palestinian Christians of today are
    the descendants of those early Christians."
      [ * The Kaffiyah is the black & white head covering ]
      [   worn by many so-called "Palestinian" men today. ]
    Unbelievable? To say the very least! One does not need to be
    an accomplished theologian to discover that the followers of
    Jesus and the writers of the New Testament were Jewish. Just
    read the Book. Palestine did not exist as such in Jesus'
    day, nor in the infancy of the Christian Church. There were
    no Palestinians at that time. The Samaria, Judea, and
    Galilee familiar to New Testament readers comprised the
    provinces of the area. Arabs had nothing to do with creating
    Palestine. Credit the Romans and their Emperor Hadrian for
    coining that word. And why did he do it? For precisely the
    same reasons the Arabs and their Christian consorts are
    sanctifying the word today. The motivation was and is to
    rewrite history and de-Judaize the region and its people.
         -- "Christ in the Kaffiyah", _Israel my Glory Magazine_
        (if anyone wants the entire article, I can post it again)
To agree to use the term "Palestinian", and to buy into the lie that
modern "Palestinians" are descendants of the Philistines, is to fall
victim to one of the worst hoaxes of this century, perhaps in all of
history. Those of us on FORLE who are outraged over the lies of the
Klinton administration, the Lyin' Larry Lawrences of the world, and
the other PC propoganda thrown our way (grump) should be just as
vigilant about the lies perpetrated in the international community
-- especially when those lies are used to sway American sentiments,
and as a result, American policies...
Tom, I know you know all this about "Palestinians" -- but it still
sets off alarms for me when someone who does know still lapses into
using "Palestinian" in the context that you did... Thank you for
letting me vent about a pet peeve...
 [ Shoshona Bieman, Sysop: Shofar BBS _@_ 714-838-3837 ]
 [ _ Such a nice Messianic Jewish, conservative Gal! _ ]
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