Gaza does not mean sting as slayhy told us

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Dec 15, 2012 at 07:34

Hi Sara you wrote

Thanks, DNM. I will try to find out and report back. I do know that it did not become a political hot button until way into the 2oth century... about the time the political games created the 'Palestinian' nation (of course they don't count the Jews among them, ironically)

I hope that you read my recent post to slayhy that the Qur'an makes it very clear that Allah gave ard al-ma3ad to the Jewish people HIS FAVORITE NATION and it is as clear as it can get that Allah is indeed a zionist

But what I can contribute now is that Aza means strong (referring to a female) or bold, and it is used as a name for a girl sometimes in Hebrew.

There is also an Arabic female name and it is 3Azza which really has the same meaning

So the Aramaic and Hebrew are in agreement.

I do believe that the word Gaza is from Aramaic

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