Quote Originally Posted by Balanbam00 View Post
BT :
Lets start with, (''just how Israel has taken over Palestine'', by our B T brother.) better would be , 'how the Arabs or how is Palestine trying to take over 'parts of Israel.''

The word Palestine comes from Philistine and originally denoted the coastal region north and south of Gaza which was occupied and settled by the Philistine invaders, ( note invaders!!) from across the sea.( Today it is the area which is called 'Gaza' ) They were invaders from the Aegean islands, and occupied the area which is now Gaza today. The Hebrew word for Invader is ('פּוֹלֵשׁ' = Polesh,) the root verb is P L S. They were the invaders or the invading army or force at that time. 'Ha' Plashtim,= the Invaders. Arabs can not sound the 'P' so it becomes
Filastin = Palestine

Jund Filasṭīn ("the military district of Palestine") was one of the military districts of the Umayyad and Abbasid province of Bilad al-Sham (Levant), organized soon after the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s. Jund Filastin, which encompassed most of Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Tertia, included the newly established city of Ramla as its capital and eleven administrative districts (kura), each ruled from a central town.

Bilad al-Sham was first organized into the four ajnad (military districts; singular jund) of Filastin (Palestine), al-Urdunn (Jordan), Dimashq (Damascus), and Hims (Homs), between 637 and 640 by Caliph Umar following the Muslim conquest.

If we use Google to translate Hebrew to Arabic The invaders - פולשים, in Arabic it becomes الفلسطينيون = alfilastiniuwn, Which we can see being
= filastin
We have even today, just how the alfilastin, (Palastinians) want to take over Israel
Thanks Balanbam for the historical facts, which BT happily ignored in his reply.

What sparked this debate for me was the claim by BT that Israel is perpetrating what was suffered in the Holocaust on Palestinians. Bearing in mind that it was not just Germany involved in the torture and mass genocide, I find that comment disgusting.