If you bothered to read it, you would also see that it used by others that ruled the region....not just the Romans. It doesn't matter what the word means. Atakpa (an Indian tribe that once lived in SW Louisiana) means man eater in Choctaw...but that doesn't man that isn't what the name of the Tribe was...
It is what was used by governments that ruled the region since the Romans renamed it...regardless of why they renamed it...with the exception of the Ottomans as they used different naming conventions. Eric -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:48 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Obama power drunk on the Middle East On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Palestine is a variant of Philistine...it's the ancient Greek name for > Philistines: But I already told you it's a Hebrew word for invaders. If you look to see where the Greeks got the word from you'd know that. > In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote in Ancient Greek of a 'district of > Syria, called Palaistinê" (whence Palaestina, whence > Palestine).[7][13][14][15] A district of Syria? Named after ancient invaders? What's your point? > The use of the name "Palestine" in English became more common after the > European renaissance.[21] The name was officially revived and used after > the fall of the Ottoman Empire (15171917) and applied to the territory in > this region that was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine. > > So as you can see, even in English, the use of the name is from the early > 1600's (post 1630 if you want to get technical as that is when most > Historians consider the start of the Renaissance period to be). As already pointed out the Romans called it Palaestina to mock the Jews but very few people used the name...wait for it: Until the British in eary 1900's > IF a place is called Palestine, then the people would be called Palestinians > (even the Jews called them Philistines)...that's pretty simple logic. You're not making s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:314007 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
