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Our reading
‘Palestine’ is a name the Greeks and Romans imposed on the land of the Kingdom of Israel.
Their wordsBecause the fact is “Palestine” is a completely fabricated place defined by the Greeks based on when they invaded the Kingdom of Israel and then it was appropriated and enforced by the Romans on the area.
Their wordsThe idea that Israel is some colonial fabrication of the 20th century is, frankly, absolute bollocks.
Their wordsThe Free Palestine brigade talk as if Jews had somehow been imposed on the area in 1948 because it suits their anti-colonialist narrative. It is of course wholly wrong.
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