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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Okay, got all that? Great. So why are you referring to Palestine as if it's a country or something.
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1) Correct me if I am wrong - but wasn't present day Israel and the occupied territories, when the area was populated and occupied by Jews in the BCE era, during part of that time divided into two kingdoms - Judah and Israel? Ten tribes in one (Israel) and two tribes in the other (Judah). Then wasn’t Israel conquered and those ten tribes disappeared to no one knows where. The Kingdom of Judah, which incorporates present day Jerusalem and Tel Aviv lasted as a unit until the two tribes of Judah were expelled by the Romans? And isn't it assumed that most Jews today are descendents from those two tribes that lived in Judah? So why is the country that currently contains Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and presumably contains Jews from the two tribes of Judah and not the ten tribes of Israel, called Israel and not Judah?
2) What do you want me to call the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean? I call it Palestine because that is what it has been called since the nineteenth century - has it not? When you say Israel that does not include Gaza and the West Bank, but when you say Palestine most people think of the entire area between the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, below Lebanon and North East of the Sinai - am I wrong?
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