By Akiva Eldar : Vice PM: Ofra settlement homes built on private Palestinian land
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Title:#9 POP: What Would You Have Called This Land If The Romans ...
Name:Lavi
City: SeattleState:
... as an expanding world power had not in their wrath against the Jewish nation (for zealously defending their land) mockingly called it "Philistinia" to evoke ancient Israel`s bitter enemies that previously had inhabited the Gaza area?

The Palestinians had multiple opportunities to create a State, so you should be asking why they keep missing every opportunity to capitalize on just one. Could it be their greed based on historical and religious revisionism that negates any legitimate Jewish presence in the area even though they inwardly know better?

Guaranteed, if you dig under Ofra and all over Israel you`ll always find Hebrew artefacts deep under any superficial layers of Arab presence, as this history is one area that would take a lot of manual effort for the Arabs to turn upside down and revise.

The Palestinian`s best chance to Statehood is a honest peaceful contract of coexistence with Israel, not instead of it.