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["Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

     Just as a further addition to this I note that in
Arabic even now the Palestinians are the "Filistineen".
"Palestine" is the name the Romans gave to their province
in that region of the world.
     Happy New Year everybody and hope to see some of you
in New York!
Barkley Rosser
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:40:53 EST Nativejmc@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In a message dated 12/28/98 10:24:01 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << I was wondering: is the word "philistine"  a version of the word
>  "Palestine"? (That's why I put this negative term in quotation marks.)
>
>  Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
>  http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html >>
>
> Response: Indeed it--the term "Philistine"--is the origin of the modern
> Palestinian just as the ancient Philistines are considered descendants of the
> modern Palestinians who stood versus Caananites in various Biblical accounts.
> The perjorative aspects of the term "philistine" and the slurs associated with
> the term to the point that the term "philistine" itself became a slur
> embodying--as a kind of shorthand--a set of other slurs (mercenary, pecuniary,
> lacking in good taste and graces, crass materialistic etc) go way back. But
> suffice to say that many Palestinians--and non-Palestinians--know the popular
> or vulgar use and know that most who use it are unaware of the ethnic
> orgins/implications, but nonetheless feel that it can be likened to terms like
> "Jewing down", "Gypping or Gypped",
> etc. After all, no one says "Caananite capitalists" or "The Pawnbroker 'Anglo-
> Saxoned me down from the price I should have got.
>
> Just as a point of history and clarification in response to your question and
> in no way intended as a criticism off use of term quite obviously used with no
> intent to slur any group
>
> Jim Craven

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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