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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I have read both of these items recently in Culture Wars Magazine.
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That's obviously the most respectable magazine.
I mean really, where'd they get their references? The flying spaghetti monster?
As someone who is considering a permanent move to Israel, I find your remarks highly hilarious and at the same time distasteful. There is absolutely no proof to your claims whatsoever, and to source the same magazine that says that there is no proof that the holocaust ever happened makes me chuckle even more.
I've read Israeli law books looking for immigration policies over and over, and I do believe that my eye would have been caught if there was any kind of law allowing slavery in Israel. The closest thing to slavery that Israel has ever been close to was the fact that the legal status of foreign worker in Israel was under the supervision of the employer, and if you were fired, you would have been forced to leave the country. The employer could theoretically force employees from overseas to work more with the threat of being fired. This however, has been repealed as of a few years back.
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Originally Posted by GA Russell
It's clear that those of us in America are not getting the Palestinians' side of the story.
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Just for the benefit of everyone here, but there has never been a Palestinian State...
ever, and so there has never been any Palestinians. Prior to the declaration of the Israel State in May of 1948, the land was under the management of the British Empire under the name "British Mandate of Palestine" for about twenty years. Before the British, there were the Ottoman Turks who ruled over the relatively unimportant piece of land we know as Israel. Before them, the Byzantine/Crusader Romans ruled over the area to protect Christian pilgrims from Muslim attackers. After a series of Islamic and Pre-Islamic Arab Kingdoms in the area, we have another group of Romans who just put down a revolt. The revolters being the Jews of Ancient Judea who were wishing to (and did for a while) expel the Romans from their homeland. Anywho, the contemporary name 'Palestine' is merely an anglicized version of the latin name for the area 'Philistia', which for those of us who know our Bibles well, is the living place of the ancient pre-Jewish Philistines who inhabited the area. The Philistines were a group of people who were related to the Greeks,
not related to the Arab people group, unlike what many pro-Palestinian groups would like you to believe. Over time the Philistines were absorbed into the other surrounding non-Arab people groups, before most traces of them were lost in the genetic pool.
The point being, should we use the term 'Palestinian'? I don't think so, there has never been a Palestine. Should there be a Palestine? Well that's another debate entirely.