YOU SEEM TO HAVE A LIKING FOR THE WORD "LIE"

Submitted by JACQUES HADIDA (United States), Jan 7, 2012 at 14:28

TO THE ATTENTION OF SLAYHY.

We did not call our state Palestine because it is a roman word , we prefered Israel, being a hebrew name and the second name of our ancestor Jacob.

You seem to favor the word "lie" and use it all over the place

All Jews (like Arabs) are descendants of Shem, thus we are all semites, whether we come from Europe, Africa or the Midle East --and you seem to forget that all Jews all over the world were at one time in the Holy land-- so we all belong to what you call the Israeite race.

To me, Palestine is the ancient name of Israel and am pleased that you did realize that it was the home of the Jews

By the way, the word Zionism comes from the world Zion, wih is aother name for Jerusalem, so any which way, you are stuck. And as for changing the Torah, you have to know a bit what the Torah talks about to make comments about it. I dont know about you, but I know it.

And to finish, you say it was called Palestine since Byzantine times, wrong It was called Palestina in the year 70 of our common era, long before the Muslims ever existed

JACQUES HADIDA

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