The region was held by other countries...but there has been political
administrative units called Palestine.  That would be like saying that I am
not a Chicagoan because there never was a country called Chicago.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:31 AM
To: cf-community
Subject: Re: Obama power drunk on the Middle East


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Eric Roberts
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> It is what was used by governments that ruled the region since the Romans
> renamed it...regardless of why they renamed it...with the exception of the
> Ottomans as they used different naming conventions.

 But it wasn't, there was never a country or a people called Palestine
until the the 1900's



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