re: Catholic Priest: Jesus Christ Was A Persecuted Palestinian Jew

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The state of Isreal did not exist until less than 100 years ago. The borders of it were much smaller than today and who lived there before the state of Isreal were... you guessed it, Palestinians who were Jewish, Muslim, and Christian.

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Judea existed before Syria Palestine or Macedonia Palestine. The names were merely area occupied by the tribes. No different than American tribal areas that are now legally denoted.

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The state of Isreal did not exist until less than 100 years ago.

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The Kingdom of Israel was founded over a 1,000 years before the birth of Christ. About 900 BC it split into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah.

The term Palestine didn’t exist until the 3rd century BC and is derived from the Greek word for Philistines, which themselves were not Arab and as a distinct group no longer exist. The “Palestinians” of today are Arabs.

Also, the area Jesus lived in was called Judaea during his lifetime. Judaea is the name the Roman Empire gave to their new Provence when they conquered the area less than a century before the birth of Christ and is derived from its original name Judah. The term “Jew” means someone from Judah.

It wasn’t until a century after Christ’s death when following the province of Judea's second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina—that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews and Judaea.

If you invented a Time Machine and went back to this area during the age of Christ, you’d not find anyone calling themselves a “Palestinian”.