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To: SJackson
From PalestineFacts.org

Where did the name Palestine come from?

In AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and so renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit.


So Romans continued to work to abolish and replace Judaism and haven't stopped trying since.
8 posted on 12/18/2006 7:47:37 PM PST by familyop ("G-d is on our side because he hates the Yanks." --St. Tuco, in the "Good, the Bad, and the Ugly")
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To: familyop

So who are the romans nowdays? Italians? Catholics? WHat?


10 posted on 12/18/2006 7:58:34 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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