"palestinian" territories...

[watcher]

What realistically are “palestinian” territories? Let’s name a couple of cities... Betheleham, is it a “palestinian” name or that of Israel? Jerusalem, “palestinian” or Israel? Nevermind listing all of them... The answers are pretty clear! So let’s look at the name “palestine”... Can they really say they came up with that name? Sorry they can’t!! The Romans came up with that name when they removed much of Israel from the land of Israel..The only way the can claim anything belongs to them in Israel is if they rename the territories they occupy with names indigenous to themselves, wait a minute... They don’t have a history or a culture for the fact they were invented by the Romans! They must rename themselves and invent anything that is originally their own! Is there anything legitimate about “palestine” other than they’re a hotbed for terrorism?

[ibrodsky]

And now for the proof:

During the period 1948 - 1967, when Jordan ruled the West Bank and Egypt ruled Gaza, never once did the so-called "Palestinians" demand a state of their own.

Really, the cause they are fighting for is militant Islam. There goal is to destroy the West. The obvious first target is Israel, a Western outpost in "their" region of the world.

The West had better wake up soon. How many churches must be bombed in Pakistan before they realize what's happening?

Militant Islam is 21st century Nazism.

[McSceptic]

A people aren't bound by their history. If they want to fight for their own country they can. It shows some spirit.

Events in Pakistan and elsewhere are driven by a concern with the here and now (the temporal) rather than the hereafter (the spiritual). Clothing it in religion, or using that as a lever, is just a tactic.

[Flame]

Ya have to wonder if today's pal people are in fact from the blood line of the Roman savages.
Nailed people to posts and let them to bleed to death in the hot sun. Hundreds of thousands of people died that way... just for anyone who thought jesus was the only one to die that way.

[McSceptic]

The Romans weren't any more savage that their contemporaries, and did their bit to advance civilisation, including the idea of people being citizens of a world civilisation (the meaning of cosmopolitan) rather than the narrower tribal views that were previously prevalent.

Crucifixion was one of their nastier methods (and they had a few) and was often used for political rebels, hence Jesus's "King of the Jews" placard. It was also used on the participants of the great slave revolt led by Spartacus.