NP View: There is no Palestine
Source: National Post
It’s true that the term “Palestine” has a history dating back thousands of years. But its origins stretch back at least to the fifth century BC, over 1,000 years before Muslims colonized the area. As historian David Jacobson argued in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, “The name Palestine, in its Greek form Palaistine, was both a transliteration of a word used to describe the land of the Philistines and, at the same time, a literal translation of the name Israel.”
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