Quote:Around 450 BC Herodotus mention the Palestinians by name. Jews are uneducated dolts and idiots.
Around 1207 BC the pharaoh Merneptah commissioned a stele for his temple which used the word Ysirir. Flinders-Petrie said it means "Israel" in spite of the fact that the word appears no where else in the entire corpus of Egyptian literature and no one really understands what it means in Egyptian.
As I understand it the word Palestine derives from the Phillistines who certainly occupied the most valuable stretch of land in the area for a few centuries....until the Assyrians came along.
