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The Middle East peace process
reached a stage of central issues.
What will the map of the area
look like when complete peace is
achieved? What will be the final
fate of the Palestinians?
The Palestinians: an interest-
ing example of the influence of
semantics on politics. Most coun-
tries got their name from the peo-
ple who settled there: thus, for
instance, France, England and
Germany are called after the
Frank, Angle and German tribes.
But not the Palestinians. The
term today is used to describe the
Arab population of "Palestine",
though that population is not eth-
nically different from that of
neighboring Syria and Lebanon.
The Arab national movement
simply claimed the name for the
homeland it is seeking. What,
then, is Palestine?
A mysterious seafaring people
of non-Semitic origin settled on
the southern Mediterranean
coast of what is today Israel dur-
ing the second millennium BCE.
The land where they settled was
known to the Egyptians and the
Hebrews alike as Pleset or
Pleshet; its inhabitants were
called Plishtim later transliter-
ated into Philistines. Tall, clean
shaven and wearing feathered
head dresses, they can still be
seen today, forever frozen in
stone, on the Egyptian reliefs of
the Egyptian city of Medin.et Abu.
Doughty fighters, they stood their
ground against the Hebrew
armies as well as against
Pharaoh. They were more at
home with the Canaanite people
whose gods they adopted, setting
up mighty temples to Dagon,
Ashtoreth and Belzebub.
Where did they come from?
What language did they speak?
What alphabet did they use? His-
torians do not know to the day as
nothing was left behind in the
way of scriptures.
Their most enduring contri-
bution to modern civilization is
their name. Palestine is not men-
tioned at all in the Bible or the
New Testament, but was appar-
ently coined by the Greek philoso-
pher and historian Herodotus, in
the fifth century BCE when the
country was under Persian rule.
The name Judea, the Roman
form of the Hebrew "Yehuda", de-
scribed the kingdom of which
Jerusalem was the capital dur-
ing Herod's time. The borders of
that state changed continually,
but the name did not. In 70 CE,
after the great Jewish revolt
which ended with the destruction
of Jerusalem and heralded the

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