I would go further back and trace them to the Canaanites... If you look at the history, up until the Ottomans took control, Philistia (I think that is how it was spelled) and Palestine was used by the Mamluk rulers and the Byzantine rulers before them. The only reason the Ottomans were different is that they named regions (and thus their administrative units) after the capital... Palestine and it's variations have been used since the Romans started calling it Syria Philista.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdino...@houseoffusion.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:41 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Obama power drunk on the Middle East So you're saying that the Arabs of today using the name Palestinian are actually the Philistines of ages ago? That's the only people who used anything near the name till the mid 1900's. On 3/25/10, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > What I posted begs to differ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313984 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
