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PALESTINE has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there.
The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". The Philistines were Mediterranean people originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts. From the time of Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean "Syria Palaestina".
The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco- Roman "Palastina"; which is derived from the Peleshet, (root Pelesh) which was a general term meaning "dividers", "penetrators" or "invaders". This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea.
The use of the term "Palestinian" for an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation which has no basis in fact - and had never had any international or academic credibility before 1967.
Of all that Arabs have demanded for themselves since the end of World War I, they have been given 99.5 percent. In 1921 the League of Nations defined Mandate Palestine, as The Jewish National Home, to be "open to close Jewish Settlement."
In 1922, the British Mandatory Government subtracted the entire region east of the Jordan River, 76 percent of the Jewish National Home, to create the Arab Kingdom of {Trans}-Jordan. It then progressively restricted or banned Jewish immigration and settlement even west of the Jordan River, rigidly blockading the Land of their fathers to Jews trying to escape the gas chambers of Europe.
In 1947, the United Nations attempted to whittle away the remnant of the Jewish National Home with a second partition. If the Arabs had accepted that offer, they would have had 83 percent of the Land of Israel-Jewish National Home, even though the bulk of them had no roots and no history there.
The real injustice is depriving Israel of its historic homeland, in order to invent a 23rd Arab state where none ever existed.
2007-04-23 01:41:19
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answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6
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That would be Jars of Clay and yes they are a praise and worship ministry.
2007-04-23 08:41:09
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answered by Mariah 5
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Jars of Clay are a great group! Anyone who sings praise to God is a form of ministry in my book.Some other really great artists are Casting crowns,Mercy me.Toby Mac ( if like rap) You might try My Space and listen to some of this stuff under the music section.Looking of course under Christian genre.Listen and enjoy.
2007-04-23 08:51:06
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answered by Christal 3
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You obviously mean Jars of Clay. They are a Contemporary Christian group that does play prayer and praise music. They are a wonderful group to listen to.
2007-04-23 08:45:31
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answered by Anonymous
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Jars of Clay. And yes, they're a wonderful group.
2007-04-23 08:39:55
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answered by azar_and_bath 4
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Jar made of Clay is a false b elief and prohibited by the God.
jtm
2007-04-23 08:44:38
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answered by Jesus M 7
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Yes, "Jars of Clay" are a praise & worship group. They are awsome. Give them a llisten, it WILL be worth your time.
2007-04-23 08:47:11
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answered by SALSA 6
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English.
Please.
2007-04-23 08:39:32
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answered by Anonymous
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